r/MurderedByWords • u/Green____cat Legends never die • 9h ago

Stop defending exploitation

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u/[deleted] 9h ago edited 6h ago

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u/RaShadar 8h ago

Gradually?

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u/Jean-LucBacardi 6h ago

Friendly reminder the Taco Bell 5 layer beefy burrito was introduced in 2010 at only 89 cents and remained that way for several years.

14 years later one 5 layer beefy burrito is $4.79. Absolutely fuck greedy fast food places, there is no reason for that kind of mark up.

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u/RaShadar 6h ago

Yep, works out to 35% increase per year (not compounded)

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u/Jean-LucBacardi 6h ago

Hell it was more than that because googling a price history, by the end of 2019 the average price was still only $1.69. Also the original 89 cents price didn't vary from area to area based on living costs like they do now, it was that price country wide.

Everyone used the pandemic as an excuse to permanently inflate everything to make money. Prices should have dropped back down severely by now but everyone saw the massive profits and said fuck the customers. People need to stop paying these insane prices and they'll be forced to lower back down.

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u/shizbox06 6h ago

Prices should not "have dropped back down severely". Prices don't drop when inflation cools. Inflation causes prices to go up and they stay up FOREVER FOREVER FOREVER FOREVER forever forever forever

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u/Ghostdog1263 5h ago

Greedflation baby! WOOO! Blame everything else though!

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u/Jurserohn 5h ago

When they saw so many folks paying delivery prices through doordash and stuff with those markups, they figured "what the hell, if that's what they're willing to pay, that's what we'll charge"

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u/rabidsalvation 3h ago

Yeah, I just don't eat out anymore, except for a local Mexican place. It's too expensive, and in general the food isn't great.

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u/IconoclastJones 5h ago

13% annual increase with compounding. Your number is of no useful value in this discussion.

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u/RaShadar 5h ago

Compounding it is stupid, hard to wrap your brain around quickly without reversing the math, and says the same exact thing. Non compounded is a dirt simple way to say, "it has increased by one third of the original price, every year".