Ah, we're back to anecdotal arguments, I gather. The "grocery shopping costs are going up" argument is an argument about grocery shopping, not eggs. I argued, with a hypothetical, that Steve could easily pay more for his eggs but leave the grocery store with his shopping costs the same as the week before. Even in his own case, one has to aggregate across the full bag, as it were.
But this, quite frankly, is simply missing the point. I don't like to see arguments in which folk misplace their own experience as if it is some universal signifier, just to get a bit technical. If you find your grocery shopping costs going up and want to say your experience is that grocery shopping costs are inflating, then fine. I've got no quarrel. But if you and/or Steve are saying that because Steve's egg prices are going up, then aggregate inflation is going up, then it's solipsism. To be kind. |
