(12-12-2011, 12:05 AM)Lissa Wrote: Is everyone really richer or are things more affordable?
I don't know if you ever studied economics, but this is incoherent. It's like asking "Is this fraction bigger? Or is the denominator just smaller?" Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
What matters are the goods you can command. If everything is twice as affordable, then you are twice as rich.
-Jester