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Prices have inflated so much over the past 10 years that a $20 bill buys as much as $5 did back then.

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Gasoline price is about the same and the price of noodles hasn't gone up much. But the price of rent and weed has skyrocketed, so...

🤷

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 2 points 15 hours ago

Weed still costs the same as 20 years ago here in Copenhagen, but the food prices have doubled.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

New plan. Cars that run on noodles!

Wait, gas prices didn't go up. That makes no sense.....

Ok. Houses made out of noodles, and we'll all smoke gasoline!

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Ramen noodle packs make good insulation for walls

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

The cost of producing gas definitely went up. It's just subsidized more from everyone's taxes.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I think we already all smoke gasoline anyways, it's called exhaust.. ☹️

[–] db2@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

and the price of noodles hasn't gone up much

From 8.3 cents per package to 33.3 per seems like a jump that qualifies as "much". And if you get it on scamazon it's 62.9 cents per.

This is based off the cost of a 24 pack of Maruchan chicken ramen packets.

[–] brooke592@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

I did some research and it looks like the price of maruchan scales exactly with inflation.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I won't lie, I haven't really kept up too much with the price of noodles over the past decades, but I loosely recall them going for somewhere around 18 cents a pack back around 10 years ago.

Yeah, even those numbers don't sound wallet happy, but hey, at least we don't have to worry about pennies anymore, so of course everything rounds up right?

Fuck. ☹️

[–] burrito@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Depends on where you live. I can get an ounce of weed, 28g for you people with better measurement systems, for $22-50 and I have a large variety of strains to choose from.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If your ounce weighs 28g, you got shorted 2g...

I guess for that price it doesn't really matter, but it's about the principle!

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

1 oz = 28.35 g

Maybe that 1/3 of a gram is shorting someone, but a single ounce is closer to 28g than to 30g.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 hours ago

Oh shit, you're right. My weed-addled brain got "1/8th = 3.5g" mixed up with "1/4 = 7g" and came up with "7.5×4=30"

These things do happen...

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks homie, but I had to spend my lunch money on tires and rent. At least beer and cigars are still cheaper than a bottle of water here, so.. 🤷

[–] brooke592@sh.itjust.works -1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Legal weed is one of the biggest scams on the planet, along with rent.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes, people no longer going to jail over a flower to be exploited for slave labor and lose all future job prospects is such a scam 🤷‍♀️

[–] brooke592@sh.itjust.works 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's not that its legal; it's the legal market.

Everyone buying their weed legally is getting scammed to high-heaven.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone who lives under capitalism is getting scammed to high heaven, I don't know why we should limit that statement to encompass only one market...

[–] brooke592@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Some are getting scammed significantly harder than others.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 13 hours ago

We live in a world of scammers and scammees. Some people even scam others while getting scammed themselves. It's scammers all the way down.