Burger economy

    • @1995ToyotaCorolla
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      110 hours ago

      A big mac is sure to give you multiple BM’s per hour

  • @[email protected]
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    1212 hours ago

    In Germany the minimum wage is 12.82€/hour. The price for a Big Mac is 4.19€

    BM/Hour: 3,07

  • @[email protected]
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    611 hours ago

    Oh no, here’s where you are wrong. See, it’s a decline for the proletariat only. The bourgeoisie is doing just great.

  • @[email protected]
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    1314 hours ago

    I still think it is wild that we don’t include house prices in inflation, cause it was removed to use rent to match the “average American experience” which just means they no longer expect average people to ever buy a house.

    So no houses and no burgers.

  • @pyre
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    3817 hours ago

    how does minimum wage only double when products go 16x? jesus the education system really is shit in the US. there would be constant riots in the streets if only people knew arithmetic

    • @Zulu
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      2816 hours ago

      I believe the common strawman is “if min wage goes up, prices go up” which… You know just admits the system is there to abuse. “If you make more money then we’ll take more money from you”.

    • @[email protected]
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      1114 hours ago

      There’s a LOT of people that don’t understand inflation at all. They think something along the lines of, “I worked myself through college making $5/hr and it was hard and I didn’t get to buy all the things I wanted but it was fine. These lazy entitled people want several times that much for the same work?!”

      So it’s not just basic math but basic economics and a basic understanding of reality that are sorely lacking.

    • @jacksilver
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      312 hours ago

      Because minimum wage is defined by laws and has been purposefully kept below inflation. It hasn’t substantially increased (or maybe not at all) in my lifetime.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 hours ago

      They obfuscate the data from people and they don’t try to find it. Obviously they know that 16 is bigger than 2…

  • @[email protected]
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    2015 hours ago

    The last time this showed up people pointed out that big Mac’s cost more like $1.50 in 1980. Still multiple BMs per hour but not as drastic.

    • @YarHarSuperstar
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      1415 hours ago

      multiple BMs per hour

      This sounds drastic no matter what the number is.

      I’m sorry, I had to.

      • @toynbee
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        415 hours ago

        Plausible with that many big macs, though.

    • @shalafi
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      212 hours ago

      And a Big Mac isn’t $8 around here and no one is paid federal min wage. It’s $13 in Florida and $15 IRL. Using the app to save, it’s probably 2.5 burgers.

  • @danc4498
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    311 hours ago

    A Big Mac is $5.19 in my McDonald’s app. Where is this $8 Big Mac?

    • KingJalopy
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      210 hours ago

      Probably California but the minimum wage here for a McDonald’s employee is $20 per hour. That’s still more than 2 big Mac’s per hour

  • I Cast Fist
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    312 hours ago

    Brazilian minimum wage: 1,528BRL per month, or roughly 6.30 reais per hour.

    Big Mac price: 24 reais, or 4 hours of minimum wage work.

    • HobbitFoot
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      1515 hours ago

      And it’s been used enough that Argentina artificially set the price of Big Macs for a few years to hide their rampant inflation.

  • @PugJesus
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    4120 hours ago

    NO BURGER???

    For real though, can’t even buy a 20 piece nugget anymore on an hour’s work, shit’s fucked

  • @SpaceNoodle
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    1720 hours ago

    BMs per hour means something else in this house

  • @oplkill
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    08 hours ago

    In Russia its 0.33 BM/hour