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a question about inflation, wages and the cost of living

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I have a question about inflation, wages and the cost of living. If this is your area, please comment below or drop some links to research and resources I can look at for this essay I’m developing about employment culture.

It’s pretty simple really, once I put it on paper, but I need some help understanding whether I’m on the right track here.

So, if wages were to keep up with inflation, wouldn’t the cost of living just continue to sky-rocket?

Increased remuneration for those who make the things we need for living means those things would be more expensive to cover the cost of increased wages.

Does this mean we’re in a proper actual bind? Because I mean, a lot of us need just a little bit more to make ends meet, but that little bit more for each adds up to a lot over-all. How do we increase wages to meet the real costs of living without increasing the cost of living by doing so?

Are we in this bind because we’re actually running out of resources and therefore the cost of things needs to be increasingly high, or because those resources are being shored up by those who already have the power to with-hold and create a false sense of scarcity?

Are the 1% profiting from this scheme we call an economy, or is there just a major systemic problem in the coding of our economic ideology?

So, many, questions. But the main one is this:

If wages were to keep up with inflation, wouldn’t the cost of living just continue to sky-rocket?

through which the motes fleet

(The title of this post should be sung to the tune of “For Whom The Bell Tolls” while imagining James Hetfield doing the splits.)

We’ve got a situation here. This last week our domestic environment exploded in fits of verbal violence that leave my family and I mostly displaced from the dwelling that was intended as a shared home. We’ve been spending the days in our car or with family, coming back to sleep fitfully at night. Our son has thankfully avoided a lot of the fallout, though not for any positive reason – his friend is missing, so Zane and his mates have been roaming Brisbane to find him. Things are calming down now – the main aggressor is talking about moving out, which is a huge relief.

These events are the symptoms of a maligned culture in demise – they are the cracks that result from collective ways of being that are unsuitable for our nature. I say this not to exonerate myself from my part in the verbal violence – I made the mistake of retaliating, yelling, have accepted my responsibility for the maladaptive reaction I contributed to the escalation of a situation that could have been avoided if I and others had been more skillful, and I resolve to learn from this how to do differently next time. There’s more of that at the end of this draft.

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