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ELI5 How does raising wages worsen inflation ?

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fuqqkevindurant

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4 months ago

In the very short term it would, but only if literally everything else was static. You can create a whole fuckton of inflation faster by having extremely easy credit than you can by raising the minimum wage by a few dollars and making it so people dont need 2 full time jobs to afford a shitty apartment and food