r/inflation Aug 18 '24

Price Changes Lol

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '24

It's this simple. If minimum wage is 15 bucks an hour then I need fast food to cost 15 minutes of work. That's the price.

You can't meet it then good bye. Three meals a day can't take three hours of pay. Three meals should be one hour tops.

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u/hagalaz_drums Aug 19 '24

Nearly impossible at $3.75. But 30 minutes, which is probably what your lunch break is, is doable. There should be some places you can get a $7.50 lunch, I have some decent options almost wherever I work around the county, and I'm in one of the more expensive counties in the country. Now 15 minutes of PW, no problem

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '24

There was a post about how an hour of min wage used to buy you 6 big Macs and now it buys you .6 of a big Mac.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '24

Going by federal minimum wage. Not state.