/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>54805782
Not true. Biden and the MSM keep telling me that everything is better than ever.

>>54805799
for them it probably is

Is le Big Mac really $8 now?

bring back the 2 for $5 deal

>>54805782
>The hecking minimum wage
Why am I supposed to judge American prosperity based on how much teenagers make at their summer jobs? Kys commie

Xennial here, graduated high school in 2003:
Back in the late '90s when I was a paperboy I'd ride my bike to Burger King and get an entire meal for around $2.
I didn't know it at the time, but that would be the last time I could enjoy such a luxury.
Call me corny and pathetic for wallowing over the days when greasy fast food was cheap, but this is basically the same thing as when I was a kid and senior citizens would constantly go on about how when they were kids in the '50s, a bottle of Coca-Cola only cost a dime.
For any Zoomers here: it'll happen to you eventually..

>>54805812
I went to McDonald's a year or so ago before my weight loss kick, and I ordered a large order of McNuggets and two orders of large fries: $20.
Seriously.
Twenty fucking dollars.

>>54805848
>I remember when a pizza cost $30

>>54805829
median household income is like $70k. the median family is poor as fuck.

>>54805862

>>54805782
Pic related is more damning than overpriced goyslop.

>>54805782
Minimum wage is a retarded metric of wealth because nobody actually works for minimum wage. Obviously the American standard of living has been declining for decades, but your metric is dumb.

Even fast food workers make like $15/hr. The Big Mac is $4.89. A fast food worker makes 3 Big Macs per hour, not less than 1.

>>54805782
This is an interesting question.
What are all the factors that go into the explanation? Simply MW not keeping up? Higher production costs? Higher profit margins?

>>54805848
>Call me corny and pathetic
You are corny and pathetic.

>>54805925
I already use the story of how I could buy an In N Out combo for $5 (including tax!) in high school as an example of burgernomics to normies.

I could by an "ounce" of weed for 40 bucks.

>>54805848

Is a Xennial a young Gen-X, or an old Millennial?

>>54805782
Big Mac is $4 lying nigger OP, and this is here commie WA where min wage is 16$ you can get 4 Big macs per hour on min wage

>>54805782
On the contrary son, it's just the beggining. Check the charts and read, READ the market right now
We are just starting.
Check out $PAPA while you're at it

>>54806040
Longer noses

>>54805782
just wondering when people who make a million a year will need EBT
at some point this will be a reality unless CPI has negative growth.. lol

>>54806012

The materials used to make a Big Mac cost less than .05 cents per Big Mac, in all.

That’s how stupid people are in America.

They don’t realize that growing poppy is legal, harvesting poppy is legal. They literally pay pharma for the same thing they can grow.

>>54805829
Because minimum wage used to be a meaningful amount of money on which a human could survive. Now you honestly can't really even afford to work for minimum wage when you factor in transportation costs to get to work. Simply isn't feasible. The economy is absolutely fucked.

>>54805782
>sharts measure their decline in affordability of goyslop

>>54806211
if even goyslop is expensive, imagine real food

>>54806211
that's a good idea since the cost is really going to be optimized

>>54806187
Labor, energy, and distribution are the largest costs in practically all products. Why are you looking only at material cost?

>>54805928
Everything in America, every loan, job, scholarship opportunity, is based on not being white.

Most neets are white men who get fucked with constantly.

>>54806110
It's a portmanteau of both (late '70s, early '80s).
Old enough to remember life before the internet, but too young to remember disco.

>>54805782
couple that data with the shrinking of the Big Mac
we are all getting fucked

Um OK sweatie it's 2023 now. Let's use relevant information yeah? Putinflation is under control.

>>54805782
now do big macs per median wage

>>54805782
That's kind of crazy, 6 bigmacs in an hour. Work for a day and you're set for a week

>>54805903
I make $100k and support a wife and two kids. We are poor as fuck. Literally can’t make ends meet some months and have to go into debt.

>>54806538

Damn... disco would've been fun...

>>54805848
Same senpai but always considered myself millennial never heard of this xennial before

>>54805782
no shit, real wages haven't risen since the 1970s

>>54805848
>For any Zoomers here: it'll happen to you eventually
How am i supposed to remember cheap fast food? My older brother told me how he was feasting on .95c doublecheese back during his univ days a decade ago. Me at univ? A doublecheese is $4. I maybe can afford to eat mcdolan goyslop once a month.

I don't think i'll remember fast food joint very fondly, beside maybe
>aaaah yes i remember, it was the place i couldn't afford to go! Good missing memories!

>>54806857
>Me at univ? A doublecheese is $4. I maybe can afford to eat mcdolan goyslop once a month.
buy ground chicken, peppers, tomatoes, olives & lettuce, and make homemade chicken veggie wraps for meals. you buy 2 weeks worth of meat and veggies for much less than 2 weeks of fast food would cost, it's cheaper, healthier, and tastes better too.

I used to wage $8.25/hr at a grocery store and every dinner I'd go the chinese restaurant next door and get dinner for about $8.50 and remember just thinking the 30 minute break + over hour wage basically reduced my daily earnings by like 20%.

>>54805861
What nugget count did you get?

Its crazy to me that minimum wage is still $7.25. I remember that being the minimum wage when I started working in Highschool back in like '06

>>54806135
In the midwest and like south texas its cheap, coastal areas are 8 dollars.

>>54806135
Its obviously based on a big mac meal

>>54806985
Yeah imagine working, today, for 8 fucking hours and getting... $58... And that's not taking into account forced breaks lol.

>>54806331
>recently laid off
>get to the "voluntary disclosures"
>put white male
>feel like its the wrong answer
Its to the point im thinking of not identifying. Although that feels like a wrong answer as well

>>54806985
Oh also with short term rates near 5%, you could put just $325k in a money market and make more than a minimum wage working working full time with zero risk.

>>54806777
Checked, and Xennial is just a buzzword to describe the latter part of Gen X or the early stage of Millennial.
A more flattering nickname is the Oregon Trail Generation.

>>54807095
what is a money market and why is it zero risk?

>>54805782
It’s 15 an hour where I live, and I get buy one get one Big Macs on the app all the time. So 3.50 Big Mac is 4.2 Big Macs an hour for minimum wagers. I make more than that so KYS

>>54806985
soon you'll remember they use to pay you to go to work.

>>54807201
>'"reverse financed internship'"
lmao, what a scumbag dipshit company, imagine paying to work for them, fuck that company

>>54807143
Its a fund that's always $1 but pays dividends. Like a federal money market investing in stuff like short term gov debt like fed repos and just gets paid interest from from the fed with no risk.

>>54807201
Lmao no way this is real right?

>>54805812
Just wait until it’s $16

>>54806200
Is there anything that the government could actually and feasibly do at this point to correct course? I know they're spiteful and evil, but I feel that even they wouldn't want their slave class to check out.

>>54807143
oh cool, any examples?

>>54807554
VMFXX, its just a like a bank account really. If you have "cash" in a vanguard account, it gets put into this automatically. I just think its funny you could have about $325k in cash and make more risk free than a minimum wage worker working full time. And its just the fed paying you with printed dollars, you aren't even investing it in a productive business or something.

>>54805848
It's sad, what's the point of fast food if it's not even cheap anymore? Beans and deens diet from now on.

>>54807393
kill anyone who immigrated within the past 20 years and redistribute their assets to the middle class. oh and shoah the (((bankers.)))

>>54806135
Bullshit, big macs is $6.13 after tax in Washington

>>54807657
I got lunch from Whole Foods today for $10:
>two venison jerky bars
>protein workout bar
>two rolls from the bakery
I'm also down to a slim 150 lbs., and was at 222 in 2021!

>>54806084
an ounce of mid weed for 40 bucks is a ripoff
when I used to smoke mid back in the day my guy gave them to me for $10 and $20

>>54805782
Legal minimum wage hasn't increased but actual minimum wage has increased with market forces.

Amazon will literally hire anybody who passes a drug test, and they start at $15. My local grocery store also starts at $15.

>>54807695
whole foods and premium/luxury grocery stores are unironically where the deals at when it comes to a fast, cheap, and good lunch. Better that $10 at Whole Foods hot bar then McD, the only thing you have to worry about though is disgusting people touching and coughing and sneezing at the hot food bar

>>54807095
>minimum wage unchanged for decades
>NPV of a minimum wagie is $325k
slave inflation is out of control, this shit is more overvalued than ever before

>>54807067
obviously don't identify, you fucking goofball

>>54805782
Were big macs really 50 cents? Boomers had it so easy

>>54807871
My mom was a night manager at a McDonald's in the '80s: a dollar went a long way back in those days.
Look how much a Taco Bell combo meal cost in 1996:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACUA2Zc9ZpU

>>54807871
Candy sodas and chips use to be 25cents at double the size.
>source: cleaning out the attic

>>54806135
OP must be using DoorDash prices.

>>54805782
2023 minimum wage buys more 2023 Hot Wheels than 1980 minimum wage could buy 1980 Hot Wheels. But 2023 minimum wage won't buy you any 1980 Hot Wheels in 2023. They also taste nothing like a Big Mac.

>>54807969
Bazooka Joe used to be 5 cents each.

>>54807829
They can tell by your name retard
>I wonder if david is black, latino, asian or white
>I wonder if kashaoun is black, latino, asian, or white
>I wonder if phan is black, latino, asian, or white
>I wonder if jose is black, latino, asian, or white

>>54808100
David is Jewish.

>>54808100
Actually this brings up a bigger question. Can you use a fake name on resumes or will this automatically get offer rescinded during the on boarding

>>54805782
I like to play Tom Petty radio when I drive around because it allows me to escape to the time when boomers lived without a care in the world and everything within their grasp

>>54808122
Take it back. Delet this right fucking NOW

>food analogy
>>54805829
F(ifth)pbp

>>54808040
*sigh*

>>54805861
You're better off going to a nice lunchroom and getting a decent lunch for less. I had a great homemade falafel lunch on wholebread with a salad for less than $10.
Grocery store is getting there too. Why would I spend $9 on a healthy meal I have to cook when for just a little more I can get something thats even better, tastes better too for $12.
Chinese are the best at this time. $25 and you have 4 days worth of food.

>>54805848
I remember in ‘06 I bought 3 McDoubles and 2 mchickens for $5

>>54806135

>>54805782
this is a fucked up state. shit is going downhill fast, and it's obvious

>>54808894
I cook better than most restaurants so it isn't worth it to me when I taste their garbage and it gives me the shits because the wagie cook didn't perform food safety.

>>54807067
I have yet to be or hear of anyone being penalized for not identifying. I think it helps. I have been getting much more interaction since I stopped identifying. If you identify and they hire you then you would be hurting their diversity percentage. But not identifying? Well, then you wouldn't be. :^)

>>54807620
appreciated, and yeah pretty crazy

>>54809392
Spokane

>>54805812

No lmao. Go in the app and you can get a 2nd Big Mac for $0.29 if you buy one. So two for about $5.30 where I live, normal menu price for the Big Mac is like $5.

Shit has got more expensive lately, but not that bad.

>>54809817
>other anons posting the greatest protein deal mcdonalds has ever had in the last decade
>it's still not available in my state
FUCK YOU RONALD ILL TEAR DOWN EVERY MCDONALDS FUELED BY BIGMAC GAINS TO FIND YOU

>>54808894
> Why would I spend $9 on a healthy meal I have to cook when for just a little more I can get something thats even better, tastes better too for $12.
Because you get 1 serving for 12$ but you get multiple servings/meals for the 9$ lmao

>>54806857
Bro, I lived off of the 99c menus when I was in high school. What a time. I used to smash wendy's jr. bacon cheeseburgers. They're like $2 now.

>>54808939
Yeah, '06-08 was the year I got super fat because you could get 2 McGangBangs and a large coke for 5 bucks. It took me until 2017 to drop the weight those years did to me.

6 Bigs Mac

big macs are trash
better fastfood exist

GUYS GUYS GUYS HOLY SHIT ITS HAPPENING

>>54805782
big mac was never 50 cents, a cheeseburger was 69 cents.

>>54810193
just vpn to a state with burgers then collect from there

>>54810338
>just use VPN to order from mcdonalds
And then what zoomie? Door dash deliver it from another state?

>>54805782

>>54805848
The mid to late 90's were so damn good man..

>>54810456
Never forget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n41wu55CvE

>>54810506
https://youtu.be/MoIrYC7pbnE
That hocus pocus focus juice

>>54810193
>being this much of a hog

You should browse some of the fat people hate threads on /fit/

>>54810547
>thinks I'm fat
OH NO NO NO TIME TO BLOW YOUR MIND

>>54806141
quantitative EATING

>>54807777
Can't imagine the hygiene practices at McDonald's are much better

>>54810684
Mcdonalds knows they have constant ambulance chasers going to their store ever since that hot coffee whore got 6 gorillion settlement case

>>54810640

CALM DOWN

>>54810701
I've worked at a McDonald's and stand by my comment

>>54810703
Don't ever talk to me or my 11 year old son again

>>54805782
The USA is not in decline. This is retarded Russian bullshit to feed skitzo doomers.

>>54805799
>Not true. Biden and the MSM keep telling me that everything is better than ever.
But you are in Russia?

>>54805848
‘03 Chads RISE UP
>got to experience the KINO early 90s as white kids in the most prosperous era of the most prosperous nation in history
>grandfathers were in WW2 and looked out for us, we were what they fought for
>got educated and into the professional world right before the woke mind virus took over
>still young enough to witness and enjoy the AI explosion that will likely make us live for hundreds of years, get to see incredible vidya, get to see the woke mind virus get snuffed out by fully customized generative AI entertainment right as the wokies get a foothold on culture

>>54806578
I don't feel too gypped since it was all just bread they trimmed off from the looks of it

test

>>54805799
It is for the Jewish elite

>>54805861
I went to McDonald's in Japan last night and it really wasn't all that expensive.

6 big macs would be really bad for you so this is a good thing. Obesity kills.

>>54810805
They fought for israel lol

>>54805829
This, who the fuck gives a shit about minimum wage

>>54807804
A wrongful death settlement is something like $2.2M (https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-value-of-life/).). I guess most people are really better off dead.

>>54807777
Checked

>>54805782
Wait a moment, how does this make sense? I'm in bc canada. Exchange rate is 1usd=1.35cad. Minimum wage is 16.75 cad here and a big Mac is 7.29.

>>54811160
Look closer you fucking tard.

>>54806578
Where the fok did they get a big mac fro. 1972 from?

>>54806538
>portmanteau
[Sigh]

>>54807067
>to the point im thinking of not identifying
Oh, so you're a terrorist then?

>>54805782
"The cost of a Big Mac varies depending on location and whether it is part of a value meal123. In the United States, the average cost of a Big Mac is $4.101, but it has increased by 40% over the last 10 years, costing $6.05 on average4. As of December 2021, the cost of a Big Mac in the United States was $5.815. According to the January 2023 Big Mac index, Switzerland has the most expensive Big Macs in the world, costing 7.26 U.S. dollars3."

>>54806135
>you can get 4 Big macs per hour on min wage
I wanna fuck it.
Let me fuck it.
I'll put my dick in ya gas tank.

>>54813293
People are fatter now than back when Big Macs were larger for cheaper.

>>54814860
Ayo hol up, siri how many office monkeys in America in 2023. How many office monkeys in America in 1970

g-guys.. what about the McChickens??

>>54805782
>Minimum wage in 1980 was equivalent to $49 now

>>54805782
when they bring in the bug mac you will be able to afford 10
and you will also be happy

>>54808814
>Family size

>>54814937
>>54808814
>March 2023

>>54814965
May* FUCK I blew it

>>54805848
goddamn that's a fucking spread

>>54805812
no.
big mac in 1980 was 1.60 in 1980 dollars, which is 5.86 in 2023 dollars (thanks, brandon)
3.10 /hr = 11.36 /hr in 2023
big mac in 2023 is 5.15 on average
average low wage mcdonalds employee makes 10ish in usa
therefore mcdonalds wage slaves from 1980 vs. 2023 probably made about the same amount of BM's per hour.
so if this is an indicator of US decline, then i guess the US is doing amazingly?
a better way to actually indicate US decline is to show worker conditions at US mcd's vs. the better OECD nation's mcd's -- it is only when you make those comparisons that you see how much the US cucks itself by not standing up for basic worker's rights. this is mostly thanks to the right wing propaganda machine

>>54805848
NEVER FORGET

>>54815385
>they removed parfait because burgers have no fucking idea what they were ordering half the time

>>54806187
.05 cents?
I think it costs more than 1/20th of a cent for the goddamn wrapper it comes in you dumbfuck

>>54808129
>all information you have provided it’s correct and current to the best of your knowledge. If it is discovered that any of the information is falsified, the company reserves to right to rescind the off of employment, or if found at a later date, may be grounds for termination.
It’s a clause in the agreement that I’ve had to sign with nearly every single job I’ve ever been offered. And if you’re giving a fake name for a job that requires a background check, at best they terminate you, at worst you’re looking at fraud. Don’t put a fake name.

>>54810701
>ever since that hot coffee whore got 6 gorillion settlement case

lol it was an elderly woman who had to get a vaginoplasty or some shit because the coffee scalded her groin and thighs

>>54805782
minimum wage should be $14.5

>>54805812
$7.50 here

thread about public teachers not understanding why they are treated like shit by civil servants

https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1256azi/we_can_tell_school_admin_after_my_wife_told_them/?sort=new

>>54805812
>>54816053
$14.25 in a large meal

>>54805848

>>54815909
>whore needs surgery on her loose pussy
Yes. I know

>>54815586
Yes but I'm talking about a fake name on just the resume
Of course with 99% of jobs being online application I can see your point

>>54805782
The biggest factor that points to America's decline is despite the fact that fast food isn't even cheap anymore, Americans still line up every day to get their goyslop without complaint.

>>54806954
>What nugget count did you get?
>>54805861
>and I ordered a large order of McNuggets
Still waiting on that nugget count

>>54816618
>The biggest factor that points to America's decline is despite the fact that fast food isn't even cheap anymore, Americans still line up every day to get their goyslop without complaint.
Yep, it has zero advantages besides speed now.

>>54816661
He said large, they took a mcchicken patty and threw it in a box

It's not a sign of decline that the US refuses to keep the shittiest most automatable jobs on life support by pumping up the minimum wage
The entire goal is to inflate the minimum wage away because those jobs should not exist

>>54816056
its the states fault for putting the onus of niggers failing math and english when performing 3 grades behind on the teachers by determining school funding based on student performance.
even when teachers are compensated well for their work they still manage to fucking suck. look at canada paying teachers up to 150k after 5 years to basically babysit and pass stupid niggers regardless.

>>54805809
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSq0qyYWKG8

>>54816661
I don't remember the exact count: it was just a box of nuggets, and goddamn expensive.

>>54805812
more than a Royale with chee'

>>54805782
Dont you have 15$ minimum wage? Nevertheless, your minimum wage certainly didn't 16x like BigM.

>16 times the price in Tod's voice

>>54810789
This. Don't believe your lying eyes, goy.

>>54805782
dam nigga big macs were 50 cents?

>>54805812
its not even $8 in CAD

>>54816797
That looks like 1 nugget, trust me I'm pretty good at these things

>>54817148
It did but that was back in the 1960s. OP is a disingenuous nigger.

>>54806578
>big macs used to be big?
>is that why they called them big macs?

>>54805928
is this stats for who identified as white per decade? i guess you have to be at least 18 to take the census so this started back in the 50s?

I can tell you in Australia we went from $1 cheeseburgers to $1 hamburgers to $2 cheeseburgers to $2 hamburgers in like 7 years. Couldn't tell you prices now.

Captcha: GR8 4K

>>54816797
>>54816661
Was it 2,000 nuggets like Shrek!?
https://youtu.be/4Tku2fOxmjY

It's median wage that matters, not minimum. This economy isn't driven by the bottom 1% of braindead niggers and high school students working utterly entry level jobs.

>>54805848
>For any Zoomers here: it'll happen to you eventually..
Born late 1997 here, will it? I think I'm already priced out, I miss the McDonalds chicken strips, and it will just get worse and worse

I'm unironically nostalgic for when I was 3 to 5 years old, I can't imagine what it is like for someone younger than me