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Old 12-10-2018, 01:03 PM   #91
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With the $1 -> $8 comment, I suspect he was being sarcastic about robots decreasing prices.


But a cheeseburger and a drink are each on the dollar menu, so you can get both for $2. That's more than the less than $1 from the early days of McDonalds, but there's probably some point in the intervening years where a cheeseburger and coke cost more than $2.
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Old 12-11-2018, 03:23 AM   #92
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But the best thing about this menu has to be the prices. The most expensive item was the “Triple-Thick Shake,” which cost a whopping 20 cents. You could get a shake in Chocolate, Vanilla, or Strawberry (hence the “Triple” part of the name). If you wanted the milk without the shake, you could order a “Refreshing Cold Milk” for only 12 cents.

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In 1960 where I lived, it was also possible to get a large(r) soft drink for 15 cents in addition to the smaller one for 10 cents. Other than that, these prices are just as I remember them. The "All-American" meal was a burger, fries, and a shake for 45 cents (plus tax).

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35 cents for McDonalds hamburger, fries, and Coke in 1963.

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The Big Mac was added to the menu in 1968. You could buy it for about 49 cents.
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The Egg McMuffin was added to the national menu in 1975. It sold for about 63 cents.
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Old 12-11-2018, 02:37 PM   #93
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But did the hamburgers get more expensive?
I don't mean since 1940, I mean since the $15 minimum wage went into effect.
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Old 12-11-2018, 08:22 PM   #94
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I hope that was sarcasm.
Obviously not sarcasm. The coke I once bought for a dime now cost over a dollar. That dime then is now called 90 cents. So the price of coke has increased (but not its cost).

That 63 cent Egg McMuffin is now called $3.10. So automation explains why Egg McMuffin prices have decreased.

When I was working for minimum wage in the early 1960s, that is about $13/hr today.
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Old 12-11-2018, 08:24 PM   #95
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But a cheeseburger and a drink are each on the dollar menu, so you can get both for $2.
That is not the cheeseburger that was served back then. We are discussing retail prices - not the price of discounted loss leaders.
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Old 12-11-2018, 08:32 PM   #96
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That's right. If you are going to use a burger as an economic index, you have to use the Big Mac.
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Old 12-11-2018, 10:19 PM   #97
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That 63 cent Egg McMuffin is now called $3.10. So automation explains why Egg McMuffin prices have decreased.
It's also worth noting, however, that automation must occur in bulk offsite in order to be cost-effective, which has only been made possible by the advent of chemical preservatives. If those chemical preservatives were eliminated--either through official safety regulations or general customer refusal--much of the automation trend would grind to a halt, as it were.
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Old 12-12-2018, 11:13 AM   #98
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That is not the cheeseburger that was served back then. We are discussing retail prices - not the price of discounted loss leaders.
What if I used a coup'n?
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Old 12-13-2018, 08:58 PM   #99
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What if I used a coup'n?
Use shillings. That is monopoly money. So it does not cost anything.
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Old 12-14-2018, 05:23 PM   #100
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For example, using figures in July 2008:[5]

the price of a Big Mac was $3.57 in the United States (varies by store)
the price of a Big Mac was £2.29 in the United Kingdom (varies by region)
the implied purchasing power parity was $1.56 to £1, that is $3.57/£2.29 = 1.56
this compares with an actual exchange rate of $2.00 to £1 at the time
(2.00-1.56)/1.56 = 28%
the pound was thus overvalued against the dollar by 28%
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Old 12-14-2018, 07:01 PM   #101
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In the paper, Amanda Y. Agan of Rutgers University and Michael D. Makowsky of Clemson University analyzed the effect of 200 state and federal minimum wage increases on 6 million people released from prison between 2000 and 2014. What they found was striking: Raising the minimum wage by $0.50 reduced the chance that a person would end up incarcerated within a year by 2.8 percent.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/...divism/571948/
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Old 12-15-2018, 01:09 AM   #102
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Old 12-15-2018, 09:28 AM   #103
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Nice.
That clearly says nothing about inflation. All this was discussed previously:
Would someone give me the short version of this basic economics question?
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Old 12-15-2018, 07:55 PM   #104
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If they had taken that $20 bill from 1998 and invested it instead of buying all that junk food, they might have been able to fill their cart now.
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Old 12-15-2018, 10:48 PM   #105
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They'd be real skinny too.
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