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Yesterday I went out for lunch. By myself. At a local Mexican restaurant. I ordered a burrito and a bottled coke. My bill was $18. Four years ago, that same mea
by prometheus76 2y ago
Yesterday I went out for lunch. By myself. At a local Mexican restaurant. I ordered a burrito and a bottled coke. My bill was $18. Four years ago, that same meal at that same restaurant was $8. My salary has not doubled with inflation, but many of my costs have.
No fancy economics equations can compensate for continual sticker shock at the consumer level.
- araes 2y agoSame, small town, and the prices keep changing so fast in the last five years that the restaurants went from relatively nice durable menus to cheap little paper plastic flaps, because they kept having to reprint the menus again and again with all the price hikes.
- xnx 2y agoThe rapid change in prices have been a lot to adjust to, but consumers seem OK with it because they keep buying expensive goods.
- themaninthedark 2y agoI would be surprised if everyone stopped buying food...
- vehemenz 2y agoIf I understand the argument, we're collapsing the world order over the price of a burrito?
- kube-system 2y agoVoters in small town America neither care about nor understand geopolitics. They do understand and care about the price of burritos. Have you seen any recent interviews of voters and their stated concerns? Have you seen the exit polling demographics by education level?
- Klonoar 2y agoThat burrito is the world for many people, and it’s already collapsed.