Everything can be compared to the basic ( water - flour - milk - eggs - chicken )

If a chicken is 10$ and full roasted chicken is 12$ and a burger is 15$ you know it is a scam.

If 1 kg of flour is 2$ but a small piece of bread is 7$ you know it's a scam..

Coffee is a good example, single origin roasted coffee beans with 300gm is 17$ you can get 15 cup of it. That's rounds up to 1$ per coffee cup. If you the coffee in a store cost more than 2$ you know it's a scam. But you can take into account other expenses ( staff - settings - experience) and decide based on that

Depends on how you think about it, if everything working like when you "borrow" stuff from a friend but quickly forget what is whose suits you, then free. If you think an evaluation of one's effort should be quantified and rewarded fairly, think of a really low price. Now lower it. No, lower it mo-, no, even more. Okay, never mind, think of an unrealistically low number. Ye? Now half it, and you should be around there. From either standpoint, too much (as a tldr)

A strange thing to me, and maybe I'm thinking about it incorrectly, is that things on Amazon sometimes cost significantly less than in the store. My hair products are easily 5 dollars cheaper than the store. I hate Amazon and I realize I am paying for delivery, but I just don't get the economics of that.

Also, I live close to the US border and I will clothing shop there,it's WAY cheaper, and let's face it, it's all made in sweat shops regardless so might as well save a buck. Honestly department store pricing is just rigged, like if you go with the coupons and app offers and long weekend sales, etc, I can get a ton of clothes for under 400 dollars, which would not get me far at all in Canada, easily I quadruple the amount of clothes I can buy, even factoring for the exchange rate. When I read the receipt, everything is knocked off and under 25 dollars at the end of the sale. I don't get it.

Money is just pieces of paper and digital numbers. It's only worth anything because we say it is.

Yeah, at this point it just some random number you briefly see on the checkout screen.

Big name stores will all move to personalized surveillance pricing. They will track your phone when you go into a store. Cross reference the fingerprint of your device to a database full of data on you that they’ve bought from a databroker. And then use that to jack up the price on the e-price tag if they know you really need that product. Plus they even will change the price on their website when you double check the price.

https://youtube.com/shorts/PL1d0xiHRhg

so many things are going on that seem to violate the bullshit i learned in economics school that i am having trouble processing this reality as real, even though i know it is. it's unsettling

I get this is just a shit post but this really gets at the unreality that has been manufactured for us. a lack of stability that makes everything just a little bit more unbelievable.

I shouldn't need to sound like a 90 year old at my age.

"When I was a kid this was a dollar!!!"

Big Mac used to be 3.19 back in 2012, now it’s 6.09 but I don’t make double of what I did back then

How much cost a bread, a kg of flour/potatoes? Base on that.

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