- cross-posted to:
- cookathome@lemmy.cafe
- cross-posted to:
- cookathome@lemmy.cafe
I know what a crab being brought to boil feels like now.
The gaslighting bothers me the most. “The soft landing worked! The economy is great! Look at all these jobs!” Are they good jobs? Do they pay enough to live? Why has the price of everything gone up so much? It’s eerie being lied to on such a massive scale like this. Very much a superb example of “don’t piss in my ear and tell me it’s raining.”
Exactly. There may be a numerous jobs, but do they pay well?
I buy those dollar store packages of refried beans and rice, and cans of mixed vegetables. I put them in individual containers and freeze them to take to work for lunch. It’s pretty cheap, and it makes me feel a lot fuller than anything I could buy at a convenience store or restaurant.
It’s also vegan and gluten free (I have celiac and severe lactose intolerance)
I can also very much recommend lentins.
They are good. There’s even pasta made out of lentins. It is gluten free. You use it like ordinary pasta. It’s good.
$1 in January of 2018 has the same buying power as…$1.24 in December of 2023. “The price of everything” did not increased 100%, it increased 24%.
That also sucks, and you don’t have to lie about it to make your point.
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=201801&year2=202312
Tell that to all of us paying upwards of 3X as much for many basic goods, including McChickens.
Hot take: a McChicken isn’t a basic good.
Of course, it’s cheaper to cook at home. But the McChicken is, like the whole industry that is to blame for it’s existance, a serious threat to our physical health and thus to be avoided at any cost.
This dudes reference is literally a capitalist giant bullshit product with completely imaginary prices.
Like, McDumb raising random prices is no clear indication of inflation. Rice, noodles and stuff are
Actually, it’s shrinkflation. Everything gets smaller and prices increase.
Meanwhile companies stay rich, so this has nothing to do with real inflation. At least not 1:1