Not when the immediate reaction of businesses and corporations is “oh, you're making more money so now we can charge more for our products/services”.
Every year, prices of all kinds of services just keep going up, little by little, for no reason (or none validly explained to me anyway). Restaurants/fast food, cigs, event tickets, rent, taxes on owned homes, etc. “Cost of living”, i believe they call it. Minimum stays the same for a lot of areas indefinitely while other areas get fortunate bumps seldomly, but the corps always seem to get their profit levelup without fail. It's being set up so that people have to play 'catch up' for life.
I highly doubt it's suddenly costing you more money to stuff tobacco into a piece of paper; you haven't turned your restaurant into Mondo Burger so there's no justification for your yearly .75c increase on a meal; your landlord still hasn't fixed your toilet and it's been an issue for 3 months.
But they still want to charge you more.
What's needed are laws that prevent big industries from continuously raising prices for services and/or products that really show no viable changes in model/usefulness to warrant the cost increase (or some kind of reworded law that addresses this issue). As long as we have none in place to address this, it will continuously be a game of 'cause and effect' where we get a bump up but they get 10 bumps – more consistently – to keep the gap lengthy. This is something i pretty much never see anyone discuss, and i've been browsing this sub for a while as an onlooker. Thoughts?