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minus-squarecandybrie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoIf you’re accelerating slower, you’ve decreased your acceleration.
minus-squarekilleronthecorner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoYeah, this
minus-squareryathal@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down4·1 year agoBut you are still moving. The dollar is worth less.
minus-squarekilleronthecorner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 year agoThen the original comment should have been pedantic about the fact that they’re clearly talking about the rate of inflation even though they referred to it simply as “inflation”. The rest of us got that.
minus-squarecandybrie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoWhich would mean it didn’t decrease if inflation was a measure of value. But it’s not. It’s a measure of speed of change in value.
If you’re accelerating slower, you’ve decreased your acceleration.
Yeah, this
But you are still moving. The dollar is worth less.
Then the original comment should have been pedantic about the fact that they’re clearly talking about the rate of inflation even though they referred to it simply as “inflation”. The rest of us got that.
Which would mean it didn’t decrease if inflation was a measure of value. But it’s not. It’s a measure of speed of change in value.