Bonus:

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

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)=50

Making that thing that should only cost $20 actually cost $50

I shouldn't need to sound like a 90 year old at my age.

"When I was a kid this was a dollar!!!"

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

It's one banana, Michael! What could it possibly cost? $10???

Yes.

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.

Big name stores will all move to personalized surveillance pricing. They will track your phone when you go into a store. Cross reference the fingerprint of your device to a database full of data on you that they’ve bought from a databroker. And then use that to jack up the price on the e-price tag if they know you really need that product. Plus they even will change the price on their website when you double check the price.

https://youtube.com/shorts/PL1d0xiHRhg

https://theonion.com/u-s-economy-grinds-to-halt-as-nation-realizes-money-ju-1819571322/

Time to share this antiquated "news."

Everything can be compared to the basic ( water - flour - milk - eggs - chicken )

If a chicken is 10$ and full roasted chicken is 12$ and a burger is 15$ you know it is a scam.

If 1 kg of flour is 2$ but a small piece of bread is 7$ you know it's a scam..

Coffee is a good example, single origin roasted coffee beans with 300gm is 17$ you can get 15 cup of it. That's rounds up to 1$ per coffee cup. If you the coffee in a store cost more than 2$ you know it's a scam. But you can take into account other expenses ( staff - settings - experience) and decide based on that

My hair ties were only $0.96 for a 30 pack before summer. The fucking things are $6 now!

Money is just pieces of paper and digital numbers. It's only worth anything because we say it is.

Exactly how I felt after buying four mozzarella sticks at QuikTrip earlier. This shit cost me over a dollar per stick. They're not even big mozz sticks, they're like 80 calories each

Tariffs?

Yeah, at this point it just some random number you briefly see on the checkout screen.