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There are opportunities for progress all around us. The key is to innovate on these opportunities sustainably.
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Do you ever feel like you’re making less, even if you’re technically getting paid more than you were last year?
Yeah, that’s basically inflation.
If you wanna get technical about it, inflation is the loss of a currency’s purchasing power over time, which in turn causes a rise in prices for the goods and services that you spend that currency on.
It’s like how your grandma loves to remind you she used to get a bottle of Coke for a nickel, or how your Dad apparently paid off his college tuition by working summers at the drugstore.
Sure, both of these things are probably true, but considering that one US-dollar in 1980 was worth about 4 dollars today, it’s not exactly a fair comparison.
Okay, we get it. The price of eggs is too dang high. But what actually causes our money to depreciate over time?
So, there’s actually three different types of inflation: Demand-pull, cost-push, and built-in inflation.
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Demand-Pull Inflation
Demand-pull inflation is what happens when the demand for certain products, commodities, or services outgrows production capacity.
This is basically what happened when the PS5 first launched in 2020. Everyone wanted the next-gen console, but Sony’s production of the system couldn’t keep up with the high-demand from consumers.
That’s why so many people were able to sell PS5s for double the price on the second hand market.
The demand for the console pulled up the price on the second hand market. And the same thing can happen on a much larger scale to much more important products, like eggs for example.
Here in Japan, prices of eggs soared after an outbreak of avian flu forced farmers to cull nearly 10% of their laying hens in March of 2023.
Farmers couldn’t produce enough eggs, so there were less eggs on the shelves, but people still wanted their eggs, so grocery stores raised their prices in response, and now everyone is paying more for eggs.
Cost-Push Inflation
Cost-push inflation is what happens when the cost of production itself goes up, and so the cost of an end product goes up to compensate.
We all felt this during the pandemic. The cost of fuel went up, so the distributor that sells your local pizza guy his flour had to raise his prices to keep his business going.
That means your local pizza guy had to pay more for his flour (and cheese, and tomatoes) to make your pizza, so your local pizza guy had to raise his prices to keep his business going.
Now you’re paying more money for the same exact pizza that cost significantly less a year ago.
Cost-push inflation is also responsible for a phenomenon known as shrinkflation.
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Shrinkflation
Shrinkflation is a tactic used by manufacturers, restaurants, and other businesses to keep prices stable…by literally shrinking the product they’re selling.
So your pizza may cost the same, but it’s actually 20% smaller than it was last year.
Consumers are still losing out on value, but the sticker shock is avoided. I dunno which is worse. What do you guys think?
Built-In Inflation
Finally we have built in-inflation, which sounds pretty sinister if you ask me, but it’s actually a totally normal and necessary part of any functioning economy.
In principle, as the cost of living increases…because of all the things we just talked about, wages increase to compensate, theoretically allowing you to maintain a similar standard of living.
So everyone gets paid more and more, which means there’s more and more money out there to spend, which sounds great!
…But because there’s more money out there, your money will naturally be worth slightly less than it was before, and next thing you know, you’re complaining to your grandkids about how a bottle of coke used to cost 2.99.
So yeah, that’s inflation, basically.