India’s cost of living has risen 58% in a decade. 5 charts show why it’s not 58% for everyone

In the past 10 years, the usual day to day things you spend money on — your food, your coffee, your shoes, your medicines, your cab rides, your rent, all of it — got 58% more expensive.
It wouldn’t be upsetting if your pay rose faster, or at least in step with, this 58% rise in prices.

That’s basic math. But it’s also basic math that averages can flatten out the inequities of life.

Make them invisible.