Prices have inflated so much over the past 10 years that a $20 bill buys as much as $5 did back then.
You must log in or register to comment.
Yeah except that’s not even close to true. $5 in December 2015 is worth $6.85 in December 2025 (the most recent data available).
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=5&year1=201512&year2=202512
I don’t believe you.
Many inflation metrics are based on a “basket of goods”. Let’s say a basket of goods in 1990 is a month’s rent, a new TV, a month’s groceries, three outfits, some toys for the kids, a digital camera, and a porno magazine.
In 2026, people can barely afford rent and groceries. People aren’t buying a basket of goods. They’re downloading their porn for free. The comparison is flawed.
Looks like you have to go back to 1979 for it to be true
So they were off by a factor of 2.35 (47 years is 2.35x 20 years)
subway footlongs are indeed $20 on the high end in major metro areas.
Also, make sure to bring your tape measure, shrinkflation is all too real…
Subway argued in court that “Footlong” is a trademarked brand, and does not mean it’s 12 inches. Then they argued that the average consumer would KNOW this, and not be confused by these terms.
Footlong is a subway branded term for their bigger sub. Foot long is a generic term that means one foot long.
Yes, that’s real. I’m not joking. They legitimately did this. Just like Fox News argued in court that their station is NOT a news network. It is an entertainment network, presenting purely opinion based stories. As such, they have ZERO obligation for their stories to contain even a shred of truth or fact to their stories. And “Fox News” is a branded term, not relating to, or presenting factual news reports.
On a related note, would anyone like to buy “Bigger Penis Pills”? I mean, it’s just condensed sugar in tablet form. But I’ve branded it as “Bigger Penis Pills”, and selling it for $100 per pill.
A group of business and law school people got paid to peddle that bullshit.
It’s part of how our own money is used against us.
In Finland there’s a product called “Meter pizza” that’s about 60 cm long, but then there’s also a “centimeter pizza” that’s way longer than a centimeter.
Okay, Subway trademarked the footlong, then they cut it in half if you order a 6 inch…
Did they fucking trademark the size of an inch too?
No. That was one of the things being sued over.
Good, fuck Subway, and that’s even considering I used to work for them, in security camera maintenance, before this whole AI/enshittification era though…
What the fuck.
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…
🤷
Legal weed is one of the biggest scams on the planet, along with rent.
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!
I think we already all smoke gasoline anyways, it’s called exhaust… ☹️
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.
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… 🤷
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.
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. ☹️
Ye olde halfpence is now a nickel!
definitely someone a few hundred years ago
During thr gold-standard era, 1GBP was around 5USD, but a halfpenny was 1/480 of a pound, so a little more than a cent. The large-format cents issued up to 1857 were similar in size to the halfpennies of the late 1700s.
Doubtful, considering money back then was pinned to something like gold or silver.Some excellent points in the replies. I withdraw my statement!
Are you under the impression that this prevented inflation somehow?
Spoiler: it didn’t.
Shhh don’t tell them about what happened after both world wars
Or the time Ulysses Grant ordered the Treasury to flood the gold market - temporarily tanking the US economy - in order to crush his own brother in laws market manipulation scheme.
The US went off the gold standard in 1971 and OP is talking about 10 years ago, so 2016.Disregard. The commenter is referring to the 100 or so years ago.
I’m replying to the “100 years ago” guy talking about halfpence.
Ahh, fair. I misread that.
