• JayObey711@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’ve read a times article the other day that claimed it is important for food prices to stay high even though inflation stoped, because otherwise people would stop buying stuff because it might get even cheaper. Yea let me just stop buying groceries for a month.

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Out of curiosity, I found these two maps.

      Big mac prices:

      Min wage:

      I don’t care enough to plot a scatter graph of min wage vs big mac prices, but at a glance it seems to be loosely correlated at most.