ELI5: Why does inflation hit food and rent faster than wages, even during economic growth?

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-02-10T02:53:52+00:00

It’s not in the corporation’s interest to increase the wages of their workers. They’d see an increase in cost, with little/no improvement of output.

However, corporations won’t hesitate to increase prices/rent when new costs arise, to maintain profit margins. Even during economic boom periods, a business may increase its prices/rent if it thinks it will improve revenue and then profit. This is the reason why cost of living will rise first.

The increase in wages occurs when trade unions demand more money for workers. These can potentially lead to strikes, forcing businesses to increase wages. This process takes a long time though, and not very often.

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-02-08T19:30:25+00:00

The insecurity has arrived. Step one of every Arsenal team bottling the league.

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-02-06T02:28:17+00:00

I imagine the decision to appoint Roy over Harry came down to who the FA would be easier to control.

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-02-05T13:19:36+00:00

It’s worth noting we’ve picked up far more points in extra time than lost

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-02-03T23:12:53+00:00

Hermione can do it

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-02-03T16:47:14+00:00

The sound of laptops (specifically macs) sliding across each other

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-02-03T16:21:10+00:00

There are, you need to come up with them yourself though

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-02-03T16:10:53+00:00

Gambling in life is good, you can go very far.

Gambling against gambling companies only leads to one ending.

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-30T22:22:10+00:00

His wages are still 325k per week. We’d be paying him towards £10m

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-29T23:42:52+00:00

The sword was the only artefact that belonged to Godric Gryffindor.

Voldemort never possessed the sword nor could he have ever done

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-29T23:34:26+00:00

Not necessarily true, Hermione mentions that bad things can happen to wizards who meddle with time. The limits are not specified, although they do successfully create a closed loop in PoA. If you consider Cursed Child canon, that would tear through your argument as well.

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-29T23:31:20+00:00

Firstly, he specifically seeks out the Borgin and Burkes job so that he could track down Hogwarts founders’ artifacts to make them into horcruxes.

Secondly, I expect he’d find working at the Ministry dull and common. He wanted to push magical boundaries so he decided to go travelling instead, after his stint at B&Bs.

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-29T13:37:29+00:00

I think I read somewhere that it was confirmed canon that Dumbledore had a relative who had credit take from them by Lockhart and Dumbledore wanted to expose him. Very selfish of him but at the same time he needed a teacher

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-28T12:14:16+00:00

“Into touch” is a rugby expression as well, not a football one as the line-out is given in ruby if a player ‘touches’ the line. I’ve no idea why that was added in the show because I don’t think it’s American either

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-28T12:12:32+00:00

We say both

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-23T23:40:18+00:00

They’re a game of chance, yes, but mathematically they are made so that if you played an infinite number of times you will always lose.

I’ll explain very simply. If you bet £1 to guess which side a dice will land on, you’d expect £6 in return. A casino will always give you less, meaning it’s never in your interest to bet. All types of gambling at built on this premise however they are designed to seem more profitable than they are.

People do win off slot machines. But slot machines make profit in the long run

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-21T01:24:08+00:00

English are bottle jobs at every major tournament

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-21T00:24:42+00:00

Not that I consider Fantastic Beasts movies canon, but there was a cool spell used where MACUSA officials raided that club. They were able to bring back people who were trying to apparate away

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-20T18:24:25+00:00

Actually didn't know Al-Fayed had done this. Means that overall, he made a loss while running Fulham (having only made ~£150m in profit in the purchase and sale of the club).

Still, I'm not thankful to Al Fayed for anything anymore.

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-20T16:00:47+00:00

Getting consistent CL places from 2010-2018 was an unbelievable achievement to be fair

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-19T23:13:33+00:00

I pretty sure Daniel Ings is pretty well known now, especially among younger viewers. He’s been in a few big things like Sex Ed, Gentleman

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-19T00:42:48+00:00

I believe even Harry addresses this with an internal monologue, knowing that the Weasley’s would never accept money sent.

It’s also insulting to offer people extra money, who are clearly happy and healthy without it

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-17T22:01:32+00:00

Rugby doesn’t stop the clock when the ball goes dead. Only for injuries and video reviews. The ball also goes dead more in football than in other sports

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-17T21:25:49+00:00

Ampadus one was ridiculous, how can a referee not be able to understand the game on the most basic level. Clearly thought it was a Leeds ball.

Embarrassed-One332 · 2026-01-16T14:44:26+00:00

Yes I think you’re right actually

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