Explain to me, as someone who is retarded at economics.
How in fuck has shit got so much more expensive, combined with obscene shrinkflation, if we constantly year on year, improve on productivity and growth? US productivity has tripled in productivity since I was a kid, yet basics are so much more fucking expensive, and are tinier, even when taking into account general inflation.
What the fuck gives? Where the fuck are the benefits of growth and productivity going?

>>507899146 (OP)
Partial banking reserve.

>>507899146 (OP)
Required minimum wage is the cause. It makes an hour cost more than it did.

nga n 1980 throwing his burger in the fridge mannnnn, shoulda thrown that shit in a time capsule

>Supply of money increases
>Demand for money remains constant
>Price of money decreases
It's that simple.

>>507899146 (OP)
I hated those old big macs, far too much bread

>>507899146 (OP)
The divide between rich and poor must constantly widen, anything less is antisemitic!

>>507899647
>too much bread
Untermensch schwein!

>>507899146 (OP)
Small Mac
Maclet
The guy she told you not to worry about vs you

Baumol's cost disease

Productivity increases in some sectors (tech, agriculture) are bottlenecked by price increases in others (healthcare, construction, childcare)

>>507899760
The modern one is the perfect ratio of meat to bread

>>507899146 (OP)
>How in fuck has shit got so much more expensive
More currency in circulation and greed.
>combined with obscene shrinkflation
Hiding the price impact of inflation and greed.
>if we constantly year on year, improve on productivity and growth
Most growth is actually fake, because gpd is a shit stat regardless of adjustments like ppp.
Productivity isn't, but if it correlates with more money in circulation without correlating with salaries the net result is pure purchasing power loss.

DERR LET DA FREE MARKET GO BURRRT

>>507899146 (OP)
>How in fuck has shit got so much more expensive
it hasn't lol.

except for a few things like housing and fast food most people have wayyyy more shit these days than they used to. people used to have one small shitty tv in the entire house, and now people will have a huge flatscreen with a sound system as well as a tv for each fucking bedroom.

people just like to complain. and there is legit a lot to complain about. but the specifics of those complaints are usually wrong. it's about the vibes.

>>507899146 (OP)
There's more people so there's less to go around, far outpacing productivity increase. There's less to go around so the price increases.
(You're a faggot)

>>507899146 (OP)
The requirement of perpetual growth and profit. If your company aren't doing these you're not worth investing in. This leads to constant streamlining and adjustment up to enshitification.

>>507899827
The modern one is literally one of the smallest burgers at McDonalds, barely larger than a cheeseburger.
Big Mac is definitely what I used to eat fuckloads of in the early 2000s, and it was far more like a double staked whopper, sometimes I couldn't even finish it.

>>507899146 (OP)
The lines on everything you can imagine accelerated and went up.

>>507899969
Luxuries have gotten cheaper, essentials have skyrocketed in price complined with shittier quality and shrinkflation. That is the general rule.

>>507899146 (OP)
>f we constantly year on year, improve on productivity and growth?

Land isn't chinkshit. Food isn't chinkshit. Trees aren't chinkshit.

Those resources are not finite. You can't just throw 50 billion bug slaves at it and make more of it for cheaper like you can some chinkshit phone or TV.

Its more people than ever before getting fed by less farm land than ever before.

It really is that simple.

>>507899146 (OP)
look at all the gov servant freaks responding.
>acherly we're faaaar richer than ever!!! and here's why!!!
>yes and if you look at these tricky kike statistics, you acherly have ten million pounds in the bank and not 50 quid acherly!!
then comes the
>yes you are poorer, but here's why that's a good thing!!!
in the past you worked for 2 years and bought a house. now you die in a rented room

>>507899146 (OP)
That implies 4.03% annual inflation. Not outrageous but no fun either.

>>507900925
there's a clue in the name anon. prices are set by how much people will pay, not by productivity. essentials are pretty fucking essential, so people are willing to pay a lot.

>"but according to free market and competition and -"
lol

lmao, even.

luxuries get cheaper because they have to persuade you to waste your money on it. essentials stay expensive because they've got you by the balls.

>>507899146 (OP)
How the fuck did you even get a 1980's big mac to compare it to a modern one in one picture?

>>507899146 (OP)
I quit eating at McDonalds 20 years ago, their food is awful

>>507899146 (OP)
You answered your own question retard
>shit got so much more expensive, combined with obscene shrinkflation
Is how
>US productivity has tripled in productivity since I was a kid

>>507900709
It was small in the 90s here, I could eat a couple of them.

>>507899146 (OP)
Corporations have been very successful in sucking value out of every nook and cranny they can, keeping wages low and prices set to maximize profits. they could not give a fuck unless you stop buying their shit
>stop buying their shit
Yes, stop buying their shit

>>507899146 (OP)
>Explain to me, as someone who is retarded at economics.
jewish ponzi scheme economy.
It really is that simple.

>>507902874
Don't ask questions goy! Just be mad

>>507899146 (OP)
>if we
>UK flag
Something tells me this is a paid shill posting behind a VPN, likely from China. But yeah, the Federal Reserve is this government organization that basically creates inflation for lack of a better description. They can just print new money whenever they want and the value of money is based on how much money exists, rather than gold or silver like it used to be, one dollar used to be "one dollar = x absolute amount of gold" now it is "one dollar is as valuable as it is desired."

And companies drive the price of the dollar down by charging more for their products over time which causes people to starve until their companies increase their wages and this process slowly repeats and the value of the dollar is just generally less than it used to be after a while. Also shrinkflation is corporations getting more greedy as their power grows. You don't see any entrepaneurs anymore compared to the old days, because big companies lobby the government to prevent anybody from making their own company anymore, and the power gap between the people, corporations, and government increases in size every single day. And as it increases, the government and corporations get more greedy and power hungry lol.

>>507899146 (OP)
Money is a zero sum game.
Don't believe in Jewconomics who say it is not.
For one person to have money another needs to be deprived of it.

It's pretty simple what has happened.
The gap has gotten bigger.
The rich have gotten richer and the poor poorer and the middle class will soon be extinct.

>>507902874
TIME TRAVELERS ARE REAL!

>>507904390
The Federal Reserve is not a government organization. The Federal Reserve system is a collection of 12 (13 if you include the Bank of Canada) private regional banks with private shareholders. It is also the 5th plank to the communist manifesto. The Federal Reserve is very jewish.

>>507904243
It was just a question

>>507899146 (OP)
there is an expectation of constant growth.
that means that if you invest 100 dollars, you expect to get 105 or 110 dollar or maybe even 2000 dollar back.
>same principle with interest and (((banks))) lending money.

>shrinkflation is a mechanism, to offer you a special product in the future, that seems to be bigger and better (((NOW 20 % more in this valuable pack))) while the product has been in a 500 gram pack 1 year ago with a lower price.

>explaining inflation.

so if you want to make money with money, the money you earn has to come from somewhere. thats either money out of the pocket of someone else.
or you create money out of nowhere.

Marx understood the problem, but couldnt locate the problem, maybe he was influenced by (((the problem))) to act in a way that just acclerates the problem.

>why is there inflation?
so to make it short: to enslave you legally
you will keep working because if you decide to save money while you work and decide to get early into retirement, the money you saved up will be worth under 50% after 40 years

inflation is also a good lever to make the consumer buy a product better today than tomorrow