I mean, I could handle the prices going up if wages went up in equal proportions.
Not only could you handle it, it's actually beneficial. Inflation - if matched with equivalent increases in wages - eats away at debt over time, because your debt is locked in at the point where you take it on, but your buying power relative to that debt continues to increase.
Our enemy is not inflation. Inflation can be our friend. Our enemy is stagnant wages that no longer rise in step with productivity.
Everyone needs to see this graph and really understand what our problem is.
1972... the pride and joy of the united states, richard nixon
Then you can see where it tries to stay close until Reagan and it splits faster than a cheerleader.
The Heritage Foundation was founded in 1973, which just so happens to be the dividing line in this graph.
Reagan was the first president that really allowed the Heritage Foundation to go wild.
There's a good video about their history here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eeCPRD0Hgg
You should watch the documentary Bad Faith.
Seems like we should really stop hiring shitty actors to play dress up as president
and stagnant wages are a product of capitalism’s profit over people mindset.
the problem is capitalism and it needs to go.
but then how would you move money from down here to up there?
I know there are more important things to say about this receipt, but since everyone has already said them:
Wow, look at that receipt. So simple. Actual ink on actual paper. No coupons on the back. And one line per item. No “price - savings = real price!” bullshit or anything else. I long for that kind of simplicity in even the little things in life.
Also no coating that delivers synthetic estrogen through your skin when you touch it. Which all the people worried about trans people choosing to transition never seem to have issue with...
And it's also impossible to recycle shitty paper.
Wait, what?
Ooof. Just searched this myself:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5453537/
E: LMFAO someone used their receipt as a drinking straw
Even knowing about it, each time I look deeper into it, I realize it's even worse than I had thought it was.
Key takeaways from skimming that link:
Agencies assume the oral route is the primary one of concern, but most BPA consumed orally ends up processed by the liver into a form that doesn't bind to estrogen receptors. This is not the case for BPA absorbed through the skin.
Safety assumptions for skin absorbed BPA assume best case scenarios. If any factors are less than ideal, actual absorption could be significantly higher than the numbers used to determine it's "safe".
If you work in retail where you need to handle these regularly, you should wear gloves because those safety assumptions also seem to mainly consider the habits of customers who receive one with a purchase, not the people who need to rip one off for the customer and another for the business and then maybe handle ones to do paperwork when closing the till.
Also it didn't really go into the amount that might get airborne and inhaled due to handling those receipts.
Hopefully it's not a big deal, but that is currently more based on wishful thinking than any real scientific backing.
It doesnt say a drinking straw, im gonna guess someonr got a little something extra with their cocaine that they weren't expecting.
I'm sure some idiots rolled their ciggies with them.
Wait I can get my estrogen by eating my recipe?
No, the BPAs in it disrupt the endocrine system and lead to cardiovascular disease. I've also heard it's carcinogenic. Really should not be described as anything like synthetic estrogen.
This is why I use Keyhut for my POS. FUCK THE NEW SHIT!
I remember beans being that cheap, hell I remember a few years prior to that Tesco would sell them for less than 10p. Now it's like £1-£1.50 for a single tin
Something has gone very wrong somewhere
I remember 9p beans! Everything is ludicrously expensive now
actual inflation should be based on food prices. i think
I was about to comment I remember similar figures…was that knock off brand though?
I remember how bad stores were then it was before celebrity chefs took over and stores started carrying more than the basics.
Except in the meat department. There were a lot more cuts of meat back then.
That 84 pence Beefburger x4 must have been quite a sight to behold.
Made from 100% burger
"Beef" was the name of the horse
Seeing a receipt like this takes me right back…I remember collecting them when I was like 4, and my mum gave me one folded up so I didn’t want it.
Back then they called it a "grocery store". But we don't use that term anymore because it's old fashioned.
I've literally never heard anyone call it anything other than a "grocery store". I know of the word "supermarket", but I've never heard anyone actually say it in public in my 38+ years on planet Earth.
Yeah same. I'm referencing a Trump speech where he talked about "groceries" being an old fashioned word.
Are you tilting at their use of 'food shop'? Because that isn't being used in place of 'grocery store'
I'm riffing on Trump recently learning the term "groceries".
Lot of weird pies on that reciept
Clearly you’ve never had minced beef and onion or pork pie.
:( I was born in the apple pie side of the world
If you’re ever in a British bakery please try these simple but amazing products.
Mmmmm.... S'lized Milk. 🤤
what does Lenorc’Trate go for these days?
About £5.50
44c worth of sausage meat, what was that one patty?
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