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		marcosdumay 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenMower – An open source lawn mower No amount of things like grass mowers can add up to it. You have to look at stuff people buy in large volume, like food, housing, energy, education, and health-care. (By the way, I don't know if your figures are correct. I don't even know what country you are at.)

IgorPartola 7 months ago [–]

From what I gather you can measure inflation many different ways. It’s not an absolute value but more of an average of prices on some number of goods. Kind of like how there are many index funds having different mixes of securities.

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