• vonbaronhans@midwest.social
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    17 days ago

    I mean, inflation actually is at 2% or just I over that, isn’t it?

    Ideally they’d match that with 2% pay raises for staff, but yeah that seems unlikely.

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    16 days ago

    Everything gets 2% for expensive every year, the outliers are loss leaders to get you in the door ($1.50 costco hot dogs, $10.00 costco pizzas)

    We’re not stuck with eating at Chipotle because it’s who our employer picked as a service provider.

    Now, you want to go look up their wage statistics, we can talk…

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      I am no expert but after reading all that, reintroducing the gold standard seems like a very bad idea. It just replaces one type of regular occurring crisis with another and now your food becomes more expensive when Australia opens a new gold mine.

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        Yeah I said it because it also prevents inflation from being controlled by the state (bad idea in any modern economy)

        But this also lead to nations having way less gold than they require in order to have a currency adequately valued

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    17 days ago

    I suspect America would have the same reaction as the first time, if it happened again

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    LOL, have fun with that. Like 2 years ago I went to Chipotle and ordered a steak burrito with guacamole. It was $19. I was flabbergasted. I haven’t been back since, and I will never go back. Get fucked, greedy bastards.

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    Would be stupid to not raise the cost when inflation is double (in Austria at least) the raise.