>>581582>if only the voters knew about the real inflationThe original comment says that inflation occurred globally as a result of supply shocks, not because the democrats were in power in the US. This is true. There was inflation all over the world after coronavirus.
>but wages are also rising This one is kind of misleading for two reasons. First, average wages technically went UP during the recession, because all the people with low wages lost their jobs. Additionally, because the welfare state expansion put in place in 2021 expired over the next several years, poverty rates have actually gone up the past few years, because poor people are receiving fewer benefits. However, real wages ARE in fact rising, so they're not lying about anything. I don't think it's "cringe" to tell the truth about macroeconomic data, and I think the community on here would benefit from being able to assess data rationally rather than ignoring facts inconvenient to their worldview.
>once companies have perfectly set profit-maximizing prices, there's no room for more price-optimization-driven inflation, except to the extent that consumers get richer or less price-sensitive over time.This is tautologically true. If a price is profit-maximizing, then raising it cannot be profitable by definition.
>DUDE what if dems just LIED like da drumf doesDonald Trump brazenly lies about a lot of things, and lying has been very successful for him. The liberals are upset about this, for the same reason that communists get upset when liberals and conservatives lie about Kim Jong Un feeding people to dogs.