alt-text: Woman ordering food (photo): “I would like to buy a hamburger for the same price that it was 2 hours ago.”

Cashier (sketched): “Sir, this is a Wendy’s”

  • Kerb
    17•9 months ago

    that might not be entierly legal,
    you cant legally sell onions on the futures market since 1958

      • @[email protected]
        7•9 months ago

        The Onion Futures Act is a United States law banning the trading of futures contracts on onions as well as “motion picture box office receipts”

        Lol. Wut?

        • Kerb
          6•9 months ago

          in 1956 some guy sneakily trough shell companys and such stuff, used the futures market to controll 98% of the onion suply and screwed over a lot of people.

          the onion futures act was the goverments absolute brilliant idea for a fix.

          i have no idea what the box office receipts thing is about

          • @[email protected]
            4•9 months ago

            Yeah no, I get the Onion thing, it’s usually taught in collegiate finance courses… but the Box Office thing threw me off. Apparently the MPAA lobbied to have it added. I am just amused that it’s attached to Onion Law.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•9 months ago

          From a couple minutes on Wikipedia, it was added to the law as part of Dodd-Frank in 2010, which overhauled the US financial system after the recession. The MPAA lobbied heavily on it