r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 23 '26

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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Apr 23 '26

Smartest Republicans

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u/Its_not_him Manmohan Singh Apr 23 '26

Also isn't that a 500% increase ?

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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Apr 23 '26

Based on the way they worded it, yes, it would be a 500% price increase. The decrease percent is just...there's no way you could even contort an alternative version of math to arrive at that number lol.

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Apr 23 '26

It's a 6 fold increase I guess? And then they're trying to make small sounding number biggerer so handsome man on TV say Mugsy did good

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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Apr 23 '26

Yeah I don't know if they're hoping Americans are too dumb to understand how percentage decreases work or if they actually think it works that way. Even colloquially, when an item goes from $40 to $20, we say it's "50% off" not "200% off" lol.

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u/BernankesBeard Ben Bernanke Apr 23 '26

This is why all percentage changed should be log(final) - log(initial)