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Where there’s competition, preferably global, prices go down. Where there is not, often through government-enforced rent seeking monopolies, prices go up
In any case what we need is a weighted inflation index because money is fungible. If you pay less for your car you can use the difference to pay more for tuition
I expect people to use this to explain populism, but as I argued recently, look elsewhere
