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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Raw price figures for either cost of living or wages aren't what matter, just the ratios of one to the other are important. Reducing costs, changing lifestyles to live with less, increasing wages etc. are all just ways of trying to deal with that ratio and how it's experienced by different groups. I interpret FlamesAddiction's point about systemic issues as more about finding a way to correct the ratio rather than to just change the figures on one end, because as long as the underlying systemic issues that result in the ratio are unchanged, changing the figures on one side will just result in changes to the figures on the other side while the ratio remains the same
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I'm saying we need to accept that the ratio has changed, not in "our" favour, and it will continue in that direction so we better get used to it. Not to say their aren't massive imbalances with the obscenely rich, but that doesn't make more resources magically appear on earth.