Feeling McTroubled?

[Kruw]

Have you looked at the menu recently?  Bitcoin fixes this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OasCaT2qTA

I tracked this inflation from Twitter/X by simply searching for the keyword "Mcdouble costs". Having the data fed straight from primary sources is a much more revealing truth than any "official" graph the government puts out.

[peter0425]

Have you looked at the menu recently?  Bitcoin fixes this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OasCaT2qTA

I tracked this inflation from Twitter/X by simply searching for the keyword "Mcdouble costs". Having the data fed straight from primary sources is a much more revealing truth than any "official" graph the government puts out.

Of course the government always wants to put out what they want to put out even if it is not the most accurate. All they care about is painting a specific image and people believing it. Meanwhile social media is kind of a double edge sword as it allows you to acquire information straight from other people which means the government could not have possibly manipulated that however it is also possible that some of the things other people post online are fake.

[Synchronice]

Have you looked at the menu recently?  Bitcoin fixes this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OasCaT2qTA

I tracked this inflation from Twitter/X by simply searching for the keyword "Mcdouble costs". Having the data fed straight from primary sources is a much more revealing truth than any "official" graph the government puts out.

I agree with you in that part where you say that such data is usually a better indicator of inflation than the one that government tells us but how can Bitcoin fix that? If no one does the job, Bitcoin can't magically make anyone rich or fix the inflation. To be honest, if governments stop printing money out of thin air and invest in engineering, chemistry, biology and agriculture, we all will have an amazing quality of life. This is the key to success, the science but these times no one cares about that and they prioritize brainwashers and influence culture, like Youtubers, TikTokers and movie stars.

[Fiatless]

Have you looked at the menu recently?  Bitcoin fixes this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OasCaT2qTA

I tracked this inflation from Twitter/X by simply searching for the keyword "Mcdouble costs". Having the data fed straight from primary sources is a much more revealing truth than any "official" graph the government puts out.

The government wants to always portray itself as a perfect entity. They want the public to believe that they are performing well whereas they are going through a lot of problems. Social media could be a good source of data because you will have an honest report since the people are responsible directly.

Sometimes I will be surprised by the economic data published by our government because they do not reflect the current economic conditions suffered by the people. They will come up with employment data that shows that more jobs have been created meanwhile businesses are closing down due to inflation. It Is also necessary to state that the best means of gathering data is through systematic research and not through random social media responses.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Funny this thread got started when it did....I just ate at McDonalds for the first time in a long-ass time, and being the cheap bastard that I am I got two McDoubles because they were 2/$5 at the particular McD's I was at.  

I thought nothing of that, because I'd heard that fast food prices were getting jacked up so fast I was surprised anybody was eating out anymore.  And Christ, those cheeseburgers weren't even as good as they were back in 2011 when I'd eat at McD's several times a week.  But in any case any of you haven't noticed, inflation was rampant in 2021-22, and it's just now starting to ease its way back toward the 3% level in the US.  If a single cheeseburger at McDonalds was $7 at this point, I would not be shocked.  Guess what I'm saying is that things could be a hell of a lot worse if you're eating there.

Bitcoin can't magically make anyone rich or fix the inflation.

Nope.  Nor can it solve any social problems, including poverty or any of the other things I've seen threads created about over the years.  If it could solve them, surely it would have by now, no?

[darkangel11]

Funny this thread got started when it did....I just ate at McDonalds for the first time in a long-ass time, and being the cheap bastard that I am I got two McDoubles because they were 2/$5 at the particular McD's I was at.  

The funny part you paid $5 for an item that used to be on a dollar menu not so long ago. I remember buying my first bitcoin at the time when a dollar menu was really a dollar menu.
A burger costed a dollar and you could buy 100 burgers or one bitcoin and I bet that people would choose 100 burgers back then if you gave them a choice and would be happy they made the right choice.
Another fun story is that back in the 80s when my parents were living East of the Berlin Wall, people were saving in dollars. They used to hide them in metal boxes in walls and under beds because they knew these were real money that held value and you could spend all over the world. These were seen as non-inflationary money, true store of value. How the world has changed since then.

[Coyster]

Inflation is worse in a whole lot of countries than the U.S., if you compare the level of inflation in the U.S. to that of most countries, then i think it is relatively low. If i take my country as an example, we are experiencing a very high level of inflation and instability in our economy, but yes, you are correct that the government would definitely not reveal the entire truth in most of the "negative" things they put out.

Bitcoin fixes this

I don't see how bitcoin fixes this, it is only a legal tender in one country in the world, no mass adoption yet, and you can only spend bitcoin in a "few" places.

[adaseb]

Yeah McDonald’s is crazy expensive lately. You can pretty much go to a sit down restaurant and get a burger and fries for almost the same price, maybe $1-2. Not including the drink of course and tip. But the food at the restaurant will be better, larger and better service.

The food also has gotten smaller and doesn’t taste as good as before. BigMac used to fill me up and now I would have to eat 2 of them to get full. Fries and pop are still large but those are not healthy to eat in large quantities.

I rarely eat there. Maybe when I get some coupons in the mail.

[Don Pedro Dinero]

Are you going to explain to us what inflation is now, asshole?

No, what I'm not is Wasabitroubled. Let's see if you start to fuck off from 1 June.

For inflation and how to beat it you don't need to lecture us.

If anyone hasn't noticed that the OP is a disgusting piece of human garbage, look at his trust feedback.

[God bless u]

Have you looked at the menu recently?  Bitcoin fixes this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OasCaT2qTA

I tracked this inflation from Twitter/X by simply searching for the keyword "Mcdouble costs". Having the data fed straight from primary sources is a much more revealing truth than any "official" graph the government puts out.

look that is what governments are designed to do. Whenever the public think out of the box or they try to earn with paying much taxes the governments try their best to manipulate their minds so that they continue to pay the taxes.

Same is the case with crypto these kind of graphs are released only to manipulate the public. Go and find some reliable source from where you can get the updates. Don't trust any platform spreading these kind of analysis because mostly they're fake.

[DeathAngel]

Inflation has been running wild for as long as I can remember. The government never tells you the true cost of inflation, they omit certain things from inflation data to make it not seem as shocking to the people. We don’t need any specialised metric to remind us in great detail how inflation is destroying our purchasing power. We all have less money in our pocket at the end of the month, wages are not keeping pace with inflation. I don’t see what the end game is, this can not continue.

[wxa7115]

Inflation has been running wild for as long as I can remember. The government never tells you the true cost of inflation, they omit certain things from inflation data to make it not seem as shocking to the people. We don’t need any specialised metric to remind us in great detail how inflation is destroying our purchasing power. We all have less money in our pocket at the end of the month, wages are not keeping pace with inflation. I don’t see what the end game is, this can not continue.

Those tactics employed by the governments can deceive some people for a time, but if the inflation is way higher than what it has been reported, this will lead some of their citizens to become way more skeptical about any information released by the government as they realize they have been lied to.

And at the same time, it is not as if by lying the reality will change, the government is just buying time by using that tactic but they do nothing to fix things up, and in the future the effects of inflation will be so obvious that no amount of lying will work to deceive their citizens anymore.

[dothebeats]

Yeah McDonald’s is crazy expensive lately. You can pretty much go to a sit down restaurant and get a burger and fries for almost the same price, maybe $1-2. Not including the drink of course and tip. But the food at the restaurant will be better, larger and better service.

The food also has gotten smaller and doesn’t taste as good as before. BigMac used to fill me up and now I would have to eat 2 of them to get full. Fries and pop are still large but those are not healthy to eat in large quantities.

I rarely eat there. Maybe when I get some coupons in the mail.

I'm not from the US but I can attest to this in our local McDonald's. I used to be able to order a quarter pounder for about $4 with fries and drinks. This was only in 2019. After the pandemic, the same combo was costing me around $6 with an obviously smaller portion of the quarter pounder.

Of course, there's no way for me to know if the beef really weighs 1/4 of a pound as they advertise, but the buns they're using now are no longer similar to what they're using only 5 years ago, and given how cheap our menu is supposed to be compared to the US, that $2 increase is a huge jump from where it was before.

Fastfood chains are serving smaller and smaller portions of their food but continue to jack up their prices that I already consider eating out as a luxury and would rather stick with street foods or cook me some nice meal that will last me for 2 days.

[Container_A_or_B]

Have you looked at the menu recently?  Bitcoin fixes this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OasCaT2qTA

I tracked this inflation from Twitter/X by simply searching for the keyword "Mcdouble costs". Having the data fed straight from primary sources is a much more revealing truth than any "official" graph the government puts out.

I ate at McDonald's this morning and yes the prices are way too high now. You can still get some good 2 for 1 deals using the App. Inflation is harder to fix and Bitcoin worked great for the early users. For the rest of us, there are still great opportunities here, it is just not as easy as years ago.

[blckhawk]

You should probably expound on that one though, show us the data and not just give us the links, that will show how you are a forum poster here. Regards to your topic, it's only natural that this will happen, inflation is a thing and having a standard metric like food is a good way to observe it and see how the world economy is doing or your country's economy is doing by that metric. Even with that, it's enough for you to be able to give the current rate of inflation, I guess with more and more billionaires that only want the money for themselves and less money for us, this kind of thing is to be expected, unless we do something about this one, we will never see any changes to the price of McDouble.

[Synchronice]

Funny this thread got started when it did....I just ate at McDonalds for the first time in a long-ass time, and being the cheap bastard that I am I got two McDoubles because they were 2/$5 at the particular McD's I was at.  

Cheap? MacDonalds and Cheap? Well, in Europe MacDonalds is not cheap. A colleague of mine is from Eastern Europe and he sometimes makes a joke about how McDonalds is a poor guy's restaurant in the United States but only rich people visit McDonalds in his country.

I thought nothing of that, because I'd heard that fast food prices were getting jacked up so fast I was surprised anybody was eating out anymore.

I prefer to spend significant amount of my salary on my food to eat well and healthy and don't have any health problems.

Nope.  Nor can it solve any social problems, including poverty or any of the other things I've seen threads created about over the years.  If it could solve them, surely it would have by now, no?

That's why I say, without hard work nothing can be achieved. Bitcoin can't grow your farm, Bitcoin can't produce your food, can't produce your smartphone, can't feed your family. Bitcoin is a currency, not a god, capable of magically doing anything.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

<snip>I got two McDoubles because they were 2/$5 at the particular McD's I was at.  

The funny part you paid $5 for an item that used to be on a dollar menu not so long ago.

Well actually, I paid $2.50 for a McDouble, not $5.  They were going for $1 each maybe 10-15 years ago (though I admit I haven't kept up with McDonald's menu pricing), so even at $2.50 it wasn't that bad of a deal.  When I saw the prices on the combo meals--a fish filet with fries and a drink, for example--my eyes almost popped out of my head, though.  That's where inflation has hit hardest as far as Mickey D's is concerned, and it's probably because those combo meals are what the typical drive-thru customer orders.

Anyway, I lost my taste for fast food some time ago and only ate there because I was on foot and was starving at the time.

If anyone hasn't noticed that the OP is a disgusting piece of human garbage, look at his trust feedback.

Oh wow....I had not noticed that, nor was I familiar with OP's username.  Not that it has much to do with this thread, but good on you for pointing that out.

[Ambatman]

If anyone hasn't noticed that the OP is a disgusting piece of human garbage, look at his trust feedback.

Okay I can see where the OP got the name Kruw from Cruel.
Price doubled in McDonald's cause of inflation?
I'm surprised, it's like inflation barely affected them
In my country there are food stuffs and fast books that have increased more than times 3 since then.
Garri an economic goods in my country increased by more than 4 times in my vicinity since 2-1 year ago.