The infuriating part about this is that I try showing these things to people who claimed 10 years ago that $15 min wage would lead to $35 BIG MACs.
And whenever I try to show them the results, like this, they reply with "I don't remember saying that...."
Then they wonder why I don't talk to them anymore or consider their opinions on anything.
I knew a person who thought if Hillary became president it would lead to WWIII because women in power would upset the world view of men in charge.
I just looked at him and said "So you don't have a fucking CLUE who's in power in other countries then, and remain willfully ignorant on world views."
Now, everytime I have to be around me, he's trying to tell me how in 5 years the U.S. Dollar won't exist. It will be all crypto, because it's decentralized and has no government overreach. Then he said "you can even get it at 7-11 at their ATM."
I just replied "How do you not get punched more often?"
Some are extremely quick with fees that amount to basically nothing compared to the current fees for card transactions (that are paid by the stores instead of the customers, so they end up being included in the price of what we're buying, it's just not transparent).
Algorand takes something like 4 seconds to execute a transaction and the fees are about a cent, Nano has no fees and transactions take less than a second...
There's a lot to criticize about Cerrito, but on those points, not all cryptos are Bitcoin or Ethereum!
Oh I've read about this. There was some sort of longitudinal study about like abortion rights or gay rights or something, and people who had shitty views in the past legitimately could not remember that they used to believe that.
Gaslighting to protect their ego sounds about right. Funny I still remember all my old cringy positions but they can't seem to bear the damage of admitting they were wrong.
Are you living in an asylum, or just in USA?
Maybe there's something in the water where you live?
PS: The fact that Trump is a presidential candidate, and has a chance of winning, is evidence that USA as a country suffer a serious mental disease.
The number of politicians in congress that are outright conspiracy theorists and obviously crazy is also evidence for that.
Crazy is the new normal in USA, and I feel really sorry for all the rational even brilliant Americans that have to live in that environment.
Of course some people have mental illnesses, but the badness in politics is largely a result of a corrupt system. We could talk about the electoral college, campaign financing, gerrymandering, capitalism, patriotism, etc., take your pick.
It's not about individual people being morons, although various people are on various topics, including me of course, but rather that we are feeling the effects of systemic problems.
The argument isn't about the facts. It's about "I'm inventing a reason to hate seeing people of low status get more status, because my worth is based on comparing myself to them."
The reason why so many humans hate progress is because they think that it reduces their own standing.
Seriously. Why even bother having two separate windows, if the person taking the order, collecting money, and giving you the order are all the same people?
Also, how is it possible that a high quality pub burger with fries and a coke are cheaper than any meal they offer?
Well, given time, prices will move to where the businesses make the most profit. If relationship between price and demand is linear, then an increase in expenses will move the ideal price point by half as much.
That's so weird. It's almost as if the majority of the money people pay for fast food is going to something other than workers' paychecks. It's also almost as if the price increases from "inflation" were lies because there seems to be plenty of margin.
Assuming a linear relationship between price and demand, then if you increase the cost of product, the price where the most profit is generated moves by half of this amount.
Sure, but I think the point is that raising minimum wage didn't cause that. Inflation (read: corporate greed) really harmed grocery, food, etc. prices, especially during the pandemic. It truly became a game of how much can we raise these prices until people consider not paying for it