How does raising wages worsen inflation ?

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How does raising wages worsen inflation ?

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The simplest way to describe it is “more money chasing the same amount of goods”. If supply stays constant and demand increases, prices increase.

It’s a ton more complicated than that, and there’s something to be said about how incredibly stagnant real wages have been for the last half-century, especially measured against productivity gains. There are worse things in economics than inflation.

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