There are a lot of perverts out there after all.
Well it occurred to me recently while watching professional sports that even though inflation is theoretically caused by the scarcity of goods, I’m pretty sure that at this point and perhaps for the last 50 years it’s been at least highly influenced by the varying entertainment industries. Entertainment is something that no one hesitates to put a price on, like for instance £13.29 for the newest Terry Pratchett Discworld book in hardcover on amazon.co.uk, however it’s something that is very hard to place a value on. So of course that means that as much money as will be likely paid will be charged for it. Interestingly enough illegal means of entertainment are not necessarily more expensive than legitimate ones, and perhaps they are actually cheaper. You’d think that the risk factor would drive up the price but instead it becomes almost the sole pricing factor in a lot of circumstances. After all, no one is paying taxes, no one is likely paying anything except the consumer. But that as well is another story. More amusingly is that illegal or simply free entertainment actually tends to drive up the costs of legitimate paid entertainment. That’s definitely inflation right there. What a world we live in hey? We can’t even blame god for inflation either. I’d like to see someone try though.
Well I could be totally wrong about inflation being driven up by entertainment, but I’m probably not. The thing about inflation though, is that it really doesn’t even matter in the end. Once the costs of enough things go up the cost of everything else goes up with it and we end out right back where we started. The only people that inflation is a major headache for are people with a lot of money because now the money they made off of things that were worth less isn’t worth as much. Actually I suppose that you could be inflated off of a pension too if you lived on it for long enough. viva inflation huh?
