The hard things are not easy, hence hard.

So you would be okay if you had a drop in salary that meant you'd have to start looking through the trash to eat? So long as the headline figures were okay? I think the well being of everyone is more important than the inflation figure going down.

Absolutely. I’d be ok with some people suffering temporarily if it meant getting the country as a whole back on track. Inflation kills everyone who doesn’t own any assets

Okay, but I think there are probably ways of doing it (more slowly perhaps) without causing such extreme hardship.

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