Do you understand what losing money means ? It ' s an incredibly basic concept and I ' m amazed you need this explaining to you . If things get more expensive and your wage does not go up , you are losing money . Take the extreme example of the Weimar republic . If you get paid 200 DM a week , however a carton of eggs has gone from 10 DM before hyperinflation to 100 , 000 DM after hyperinflation whilst your wage has stayed more or less the same , it ' s reasonable to assume that you have lost a great deal of spending power . It would be completely mental to say that because your wage has stayed the same you are as well off as you were before hyper inflation . <| sep |> How dare you put the Barbarian at the opposite end of that spectrum