The first thing I thought about as reading this:
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
We have a big "cost of living" concern in Australia, and it's very ripe to gaming the system through things like energy bill handouts.
I can only talk from the Australian perspective, but I think there's certain elements set up like a Ponzi scheme, and we'll need to correct it and stick to fundamentals, and that is going to break quite a few eggs.
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