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Well said. Giving non-inflation adjusted prices is such piss-poor journalism. It's as bad as the practice of making time-relative statements like "since last year", so the reader has to work out what that means.


How is giving inflation-adjusted values any better than statements like "since last year"? Both are relative to the time the article was written and thus no longer adequate some years later.


Or "summertime". For half the planet that means precisely the opposite time of year.


It's relevant to the local context of the story. The time of year doesn't really matter, the season does.


> time-relative statements like "since last year"

And then omitting the publication-date from the article.


Well, this is Slate after all.


Slate is shit.

But just because they have fallen doesn't mean you can make a statement that's crap about them, as per other comments.




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