kelly4
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Please tell us what happened to the size of the Big Mac.
They don't have to raise the price if they make the portions smaller.
Minimum Wage Would Be $21.72 If It Kept Pace With Increases In Productivity
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They don't have to raise the price if they make the portions smaller.
UncleBuck
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domestic airfare, walmart stocks, mortgages, harley 883 sportsters, levi's 505s, apples, and big macs. that's 7 out of 12, nonthinkist.A side by side comparison of what the bigmac use to be and what it is now.
You must be dreaming or living under a rock the last decade, broken english is pretty common at McDonalds. They import beef from both NZ and Australia and this is just beef we're talking about we haven't even touched imports from all their other shit.
Your contention is irrelevant. The problem is only one place makes Levi in the US and they only make a handful because it is more of a novelty item than anything. The price for US made Levi's are 130-200 dollars a pair. They are not the 40dollar jeans on that picture, the cheaper inflation adjusted levi's are made in a sweat shops. At 150 bucks for a pair of US made jeans the obvious inflation is oh so obvious.
US imported 420 million pounds of fresh apples in 2010.
China produces 41% of the worlds apple market.
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1825
So lets go ahead and conclude that tangible items on that list has is a few cents cheaper because of serious fucking outsourcing and importing.
So that leaves us with
Airfare which has been struggling to stay afloat the last decade. Even then I am a little apprehensive on how they calculated the cost since airlines have pretty much stripped all basic necessities for traveling and now has a pay to play system. You may get cheaper airfare but if you want to check a bag it's going to cost you.
Housing well this is fucking obvious, are housing isn't worth shit anymore. You can't even fairly compare this with inflation the bubble just busted.
Walmart stocks another thing that is import reliant, trying to compare inflation with stocks in a shit economy is fucking retarded.
No fucking way 20 dollar minimum wage is going to happen. Right now it's cheaper to load metal on a truck, ship it to the rails, ship it across country, load it on a boat, ship it to china and let them smelt it and ship it back to us cheaper than we can do it here. We have already priced our self out of the market.
no, i would not like to come over and suck on your penis. i am quite happy being STD-free.
UncleBuck
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that wasn't your contention though.
it's time for you to put some evidence behind this myth you keep saying is just so damn common sense.
kelly4
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What contention, DumDumz?
UncleBuck
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from 2000-2010, min wage went up near 50%. where was the accompanying price adjustment? your dollar had more purchasing power at macdonald's after the wage increase than before, not 50% less.
kelly4
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UB, are you mad at me? Why the silent treatment?
Nevermind, I see you don't want to answer my questions. LOL!
Antidisestablishmentarian
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I get confused.
Is there or isn't there inflation?
I do know a number 1 at McDonald used to be 3.99. Now it's 6.99.
Is there or isn't there inflation?
I do know a number 1 at McDonald used to be 3.99. Now it's 6.99.
UncleBuck
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the purchasing power of a dollar vis a vis the big mac went UP over 2000-2010, meaning your money will buy you more big mac in 2010 versus 2000.
all this despite minimum wage increasing nearly 50%.
still waiting on someone to explain why minimum wage went up, and the relative price of a big mac went down. i mean, according to you guys, you should have 50% less purchasing power, not 2.68% more.
odd, right?
Antidisestablishmentarian
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Meh... I don't really feel that. I don't make minimum wage. My wages have been about the same(+/- 1.00). Yet the price has risen 3 bucks.... My purchasing power is the same. Actually it's less. I make about the same but pay 75% more for a Big Mac meal.the purchasing power of a dollar vis a vis the big mac went UP over 2000-2010, meaning your money will buy you more big mac in 2010 versus 2000.
all this despite minimum wage increasing nearly 50%.
still waiting on someone to explain why minimum wage went up, and the relative price of a big mac went down. i mean, according to you guys, you should have 50% less purchasing power, not 2.68% more.
odd, right?
kelly4
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Why do you get older, yet not wiser? 'Intelligence Inflation' is going to eat Jew up.the purchasing power of a dollar vis a vis the big mac went UP over 2000-2010, meaning your money will buy you more big mac in 2010 versus 2000.
all this despite minimum wage increasing nearly 50%.
still waiting on someone to explain why minimum wage went up, and the relative price of a big mac went down. i mean, according to you guys, you should have 50% less purchasing power, not 2.68% more.
odd, right?
UncleBuck
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you're a very small part of a very large whole.
an ad hom is not a rebuttal.
tell me why min wage went up near 50%, yet the purchasing power of the dollar will buy you 2.68% more big mac.
kelly4
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It wasn't meant as a rebuttal.
Why have Big Macs, as most everything else, gotten smaller?
Antidisestablishmentarian
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My dollar buys less. I don't see at all how I'm getting more for it. I'm a pretty common person. I make less than the average annual income in my state.
All my bills go up yet my pay stays the same.... Well not all. I saved a few cents per Kwh by going with the natural gas rate instead of the electricity rate.
kelly4
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Here is my first post in this thread.
Ad hom is all I have until you tell me all about my contention.
It was in response to this post
this was my second post
In response to bolded
This is what UB posts next
For the second time now...What was my contention?
Ad hom is all I have until you tell me all about my contention.
UncleBuck
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just listen to kelly4 and don't accept the job if you don't like what it pays.
LOL!
so simple, right? simple like kelly4.
UncleBuck
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your contention seems to be that people just need to pick a different field of study in college.
because everyone gets to go to college, eh?
LOL!
yep, i look so foolish now. so says kelly4, the simpleton.