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[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Really love to see this updated to 2024, or at least some point after Covid.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Would be fun to see the insulin graph drop like a rock due to the Biden price cap just to skyrocket again when Trump reverted it.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And versus a European country (partly to make the point of comparison on public medicine, but also just because I'm interested in how the rest of the chart compares)

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 26 points 1 week ago

BANG BANG BANG

sorry, that was me banging my head against the desk. Any other interpretation is solely the responsibility of the consumer of the comment.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

They use the decreasing price of electronics to average things out and say inflation isn't so bad. Ignoring the facts that tech gets cheaper because manufacturing improvements mean making it costs less, not because the dollar gains value; and that tech often gets worse over time (race to the bottom).

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm certainly not seeing wages increase faster than housing.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I would bet that that's technically true because there's so many houses being built in the urban sprawl suburbs that no reasonable person wants to live in.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

cries in T1D

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

We really had it good in 2017

How tf are they measuring software

[–] bort@piefed.world 2 points 1 week ago

And what about the last 8 years?

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Carpe cadaver

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

They would have included the profits of the wealthy, but they couldn't match the scale.

I guess, we should consume less Insuline and more TV... /s