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When things are bad and the economy sucks, prices go up. When things are great and the economy is good, prices go up.
I was at a restaurant yesterday that charged seventeen dollars for guacamole.
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.
We did raise the minimum wage, at least some states did.
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.