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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of the time most wages do keep up with inflation. Minimum wage should in a reasonable country as well. Also, most people can totally defer spending some money. Not for food and rent and other necessities, but for other things, like getting your car fixed or things like that that can be pushed off for later.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ignore rent inflation and sure, wages are keeping up ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

True, yeah. Rent inflation is making things real bad. The past little while almost no wages have kept up with regular inflation even. Generally though, most wages have kept up with both, but recently in particular things have gotten fucked.