I will absolutely stand by the idea that burgers should cost MAXIMUM 10 dollars ansd come with fries
Basic burgers with a single patty, a piece of lettuce, ring of onion and slice of tomato should be 5.
Bonus:
There’s a million questions involved in this statement. Who does the work required to grow and raise food? How do they survive? Is housing provided? What about the people working at the processing plants and truck drivers? Store clerks and security guards, etc. etc.
Perhaps socialism really is the solution.
And yet whenever you try to bring this up you get folks from all sides of the political spectrum losing their shit.
Thank you. Every time someone says “The Economy™” as something that should drive policy instead of being an effect of it, I get a little twitch.
Why should I give a shit about their economy anyway?
Cause whenever it gets fucked, it usually impacts people like you and me.
When articles mention “The Economy” it just means rich people’s money.
That’s “the stock market”.
No that’s rich people’s feelings.
Tariffs?
Minimal wage hasn’t been raised since 2009 in the US
Also systematic monopolization of everything by like five companies. With no realistic possibility of price competition, prices will go up until people decide to stop buying things altogether
People keep making the point that in the worst of the depression, they were giving away tableware to just get people in the stores.
The CEO of McDonalds is currently lobbying the White House to raise the minimum wage. Saying there’s a “two track economy” and point out stratification. Curious.
They’re noticing they squeezed us too hard, not just as consumers but as a class. To the point where it’s eating their sales now. So they’ll adjust it just high enough that we keep bleeding for them.
Breadcrumbs.
I’ll do my part to reject consumerism. Just don’t buy non essentials unless it helps me spend even less money later. Like the £40 on canning stuff, for a couple gallons of chutney now that cost less than £5 to make and would have been like £50 or so to buy.
Still got more jars to fill, jam next I think.
If only those elections weren’t uncontrolled fund raisers…
And it was only raised by like 15 cents or some shit
What’s worse is that the guy that was meant to be in horrid poverty in the christmas carol, earned more, adjusted for inflation, than bernie sander’s proposed 15 bucks an hour…
let alone the current minimum US wage.
The consumerist haven in which people no longer can afford to consume…
No wonder that the first greasy monkey that offers change is put in
And the poverty line hasn’t been adjusted since the 60’s iirc. No president wants to be the one that tells everyone we have so much more poverty now!
From what I read at the link below that doesn’t seem to be the case. They took a baseline of the poverty threshold in 1978 and adjusted for inflation every year. However that line seems to have been set suspiciously low to begin with.
https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/poverty-guidelines
Those are some ridiculously low numbers… So to be considered in poverty, you have to earn less than 26k jointly for a household of 3. I don’t think you’d have a house for a household at all at that amount. Barely. Making ends meet with just food, actually you’re probably going hungry every other day at that amount.
Well yeah, then we would have inflation! /s
And also the kidnapping of farm workers
I use this simple formula:
Fisrt count the number of years Trump is in office, then multiply that by 0.5. Now multiply that by the price you would normally guess the cost to be.
So if Trump is in office for 5 years, and you think something should cost $20 it turns out to be:
(5*0.5)(20)=50Making that thing that should only cost $20 actually cost $50
How does this formula account for the fact that I can’t do math? Bet you didn’t think of that.
In this case everything costs 50 unless it costs 100! Ez pz
100
Meet Zoidberg, homeowner!
100!
Oh…
You could be lucky and that the $50 thing in a 2 for the price of one sale, then it’s only gonna be $79.95
I think I have sensory issues with both money and time.
My hair ties were only $0.96 for a 30 pack before summer. The fucking things are $6 now!
Oprah at the grocery store. That’s all of us, now.
Man, I see you everywhere on lemmy.
Well, when thoroughly chastised, I make note of it - literally in this case!
I am curious of the origin of this image.
That’s the cover of a book. It’s a phrase I picked up somewhere and apparently this book exists which was just perfect.
But yeah, got the autism. I panic when people draw attention to me when I’m not prepared for it.
Thank you for the information about the picture!
I’m sorry for unexpectedly drawing attention to you. I didn’t mean to upset you.
It’s all good. Not a problem
It’s one banana, Michael! What could it possibly cost? $10???
Yes.
Big Mac used to be 3.19 back in 2012, now it’s 6.09 but I don’t make double of what I did back then
When I worked there in the late 90s, a Big Mac MEAL was 3.14 after tax.
I worked in Drivethrough checkout a lot and a lot of those prices are burned into my mind, half the time I was not near the register when taking orders and giving totals when it was slow.
Yeah but think of how cheap TVs that you don’t need are.
That spy on you and sell your data and then get so slow with updates after a few years you need a new one. And have advertisements baked in
Golly gee, if only there were a way to prevent that by, say, just choosing not to connect your TV to the wifi.
I’ve never seen so many complaints about a self-inflicted problem.
I never said I had that problem, I have never connected my TV to the internet. But those are issues with modern day TVs, you can’t argue against that
This isn’t going to be an option in the near future. With Amazon sidewalk and other projects setting up open networks, your TV is going to automatically connect to a network whether you like it or not.
But no matter how much ketchup I use, I can’t cover up the bitter taste of the TVs lcd panel.
No thanks, when companies are doing their hardest to reserve and implement innovations like this, I’ll stick with my dumb 2012 TV til either it or I croak.
Inflation is underreported. They say it’s 3% annually when it’s actually 4% annually, so they can get away with it more easily if they only give you a nominal 3% pay increase.
They’re doing this by throwing food in the basket together with TVs and consumer electronics.
Since consumer electronics get cheaper constantly, that lowers the amount of total inflation. But food costs increase more than the total inflation. And that’s what we should actually consider as the “proper” inflation, since it defines our cost of living increase.
Money isn’t real, and humanity will keep enslaving itself until we equally distribute the products of our labor.
Food and housing didn’t cost money until we decided it did.
We can decide to change things again.
This is also why we could decide billionaires own nothing.
It doesn’t need to be equally. Some people wanna distribute based on need. And some people think if you work extra, you should get a little extra in return.
No, we have enough resources to provide for everyone. Money isn’t a game to be won, it’s a tool for human beings to extract what they need from human societies.
We have to break that capitalist conditioning.
There will never be a fair system as long as we keep creating different tiers of privlage.
You’ve never heard of “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”?
You should look into Leftism my dude
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs
This phrase is the basis for enforcing an equal society, not an excuse to establish a different type of economic caste system.
Doctors will still exist without our society disproportionately rewarding that behavor.
Engineers will still exist without our society disproportionately rewarding that behavor.
Sanitation workers will still exist without our society disproportionately rewarding that behavor.
There is no situation where a caste system results in a more equal society than just equal wealth distribution.
“behavior”.
https://theonion.com/u-s-economy-grinds-to-halt-as-nation-realizes-money-ju-1819571322/
Time to share this antiquated “news.”
I shouldn’t need to sound like a 90 year old at my age.
“When I was a kid this was a dollar!!!”
They were saying that because it was weird to them. Inflation as we know it didn’t really start until Nixon.
I get this is just a shit post but this really gets at the unreality that has been manufactured for us. a lack of stability that makes everything just a little bit more unbelievable.
so many things are going on that seem to violate the bullshit i learned in economics school that i am having trouble processing this reality as real, even though i know it is. it’s unsettling
the thing is that a lot of economics that you probably learned actually was true in the 20th century. just that the laws of physics - which we always thought were constant, unchanging, unyielding - are suddenly changing; and that’s hard to deal with.
it’s like, we always assumed that energy is always conserved. we can move it, burn it, consume it, but then it’s gone. it doesn’t come back. now we have renewable energy, and it’s breaking people’s brain. conservatives in the US still think that renewable energy cannot possibly work and must be a scam because energy is always conserved, it cannot be generated anew.
Which school of economics did you learn?
bullshit mostly. i was a micro guy not a macro guy.
Money should be a store of value and medium of exchange.
The issue with our current monetary system is it’s controlled by states.
The only way out of this failed experiment is a money that cannot be controlled by anyone.
Found the shitcoin advocate
Rugpull enjoyer.
Money not controlled by anyone has historically been stores of value used in barter rather than money used for retail purchases as we understand it. Even precious metal coins.
No, the problem is that having money leads to having more money and having more money also leads to having more power so every system just gets slowly worse for everyone except the rich
You need to elaborate either on how money being controlled by states prevents it achieving the listed objectives, or how being uncontrolled by anyone would help it achieve those objectives.
Otherwise your comment that is just 3 non sequiters.
Crypto is at least three non sequiturs in a trenchcoat, so that tracks. Trench coats have large pockets in which they can place all of your fiat currency, which can be freely exchanged for goods and services.
