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randusernametoday at 2:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

Lately I've been making a conscious effort to flip my coordinate system around on inflation.

Instead of tracking cost increases of fuel, I try to conceptualize prices for all things in equivalent fuel or metered energy.

The fed can overlook energy and food in their "preferred metric of inflation", but that's 90% of what I care about as an individual. Very interesting to track your purchasing power in MWh


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addaontoday at 2:34 PM

I’ve been doing something similar, tracking the price of technology purchase in terms of AAPL shares for 20+ years. It’s amazing how much cheaper computers have gotten!