@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 21 days agoFlavortown is dead 😔lemmy.worldimagemessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up11.06K
arrow-up11.06KimageFlavortown is dead 😔lemmy.world@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 21 days agomessage-square101fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink23•edit-221 days agoMaybe not tripled, but making 7.25-10/hour was pretty common in 2008. The standard today is 15-20/hour at fast food. I’m aware this doesn’t justify tripling the price. Even 3x wages would not triple the cost of the burger.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish47•21 days agoYet $7.25 is still the federal minimum wage today
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•edit-221 days agoThey created like 40% more money supply in the span of a single year. It then rises at about 10% a year on average, due to a CPI that does adjustments at the whims of some entity whose goal seems to be to understate inflation.
Maybe not tripled, but making 7.25-10/hour was pretty common in 2008. The standard today is 15-20/hour at fast food.
I’m aware this doesn’t justify tripling the price. Even 3x wages would not triple the cost of the burger.
Yet $7.25 is still the federal minimum wage today
Yea pretty fucked up.
They created like 40% more money supply in the span of a single year. It then rises at about 10% a year on average, due to a CPI that does adjustments at the whims of some entity whose goal seems to be to understate inflation.