yo so i’ve heard this hypothesis that there’s actually a lot more inflation than there looks because CPI doesn’t adequately measure things, and hides e.g. goods decreasing in quality but staying the same price people who know economics how plausible does this seem
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Agree with both. At least in Physics when we study giant blobs of protons or whatever they're all the same. The math for things like trying to make Economics an actual science is Just Too Hard.
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Problems of this scope and scale are why HARLIE, the world's first sapient computer, wants to build a ginormous external processing unit he calls the Graphics Omniscient Device in "When HARLIE Was One." What happens when he manages to trick everybody into doing it is educational.
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