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Yeah, that's the sort of metric used by those who do not want a reduction in the cost of living ... by putting the emphasis on wages it implies that people should 'work harder' or get 'better jobs'. That it's their fault, not that of people who control the cost of rent, transportation, etc
It's pretty unrealistic to expect cost of living to come down in a lot of areas - house prices can come down, sure (they'll fight their hardest not to reduce them though) but we already pay less for food than we really should do because farms are supported by the government and supermarkets bully farmers into lower prices.
In the future we're not going to have petrol cars (or if we do, it will only get more expensive) and this country is going to be more and more dependent on green energy until the nuclear plants are finished, which must be about 20-23 years away still.
Gas will go up or stay relatively the same since the people of Britain block new fracking projects (fair enough?)
We've also been getting discounts on anything imported, historically, because of the EU and other trade deals which are fizzling out.
So yeah overall I don't think cost of living is ever going to come down. Even if there was a reorganisation of the county to a more effective form of communism, we'd still have very expensive energy and be very reliant on imports.
There's no bias in this, it's cause and effect.