I was talking to some friends about inflationary effects on wages year over year and how we really should have it codified in state law to automatically adjust wages with inflation before doing any kind of review process for workers to get pay bumps for merit. You look at how the feds fucked with calculations of "inflation" when it looked too bad for them through Wu Flu and you can very quickly see how fucked we are because most people won't know how to navigate any of this when it actually gets spicy.