Comment by quantumgarbage
Comment by quantumgarbage 19 hours ago
Again, gini coefficients or GDP growth measures are, at best, proxies to understand the conditions the bottom decile of your country lives in.
Looking at housing costs, life expectancy, food insecurity or poverty rates do a much better job at capturing this.
Yes, and and increases in the price of essentials (food, housing, utilities) have a greater effect on livings standards of the worse off and are not captured in the numbers.