and still profit $12.40
Yeh, nothing but ingredients go into the cost of the product. They hammer that in to you in Econ 101.
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I think this is a common opinion, whenever I talk about labor costs peoples eyes glass over
Unless they're business-owners of some kind and then it's literally all they care about.
"Hey, your rent costs just doubled in the past 2 years"
"Yeah, but I gotta' pay my workers 10% more"
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Maybe Americans will gain class consciousness through the economics of burger. Then again, perhaps not
"Imagine you have two burgers" 
Two burgers? That's a whole tank of gas!
"I've uncritically consumed product for years paying extortionate prices and never thought twice due to my privilege and wealth. I tried making product myself and realized what a scam things have been all along, and now feel stupid. Why won't they just scam me for 400% profit instead of 500%?"
The closest thing to critical thinking a burger-brained treatlerite is kkkapable of. 
People who "eat out or doordash" their whole adult lives absolutely bamboozle me. Motherfucker, youre paying more than some people do in RENT for slop you could make better at home!*
* And I say this as a perennial slop enjoyer. I love a chippy or a chinese but good god eating that shit every day would kill me from the boredom long before it killed me from malnutrition
Also that shit almost always shows up cold
I've turned into this. :( full time work just kinda leaves me in a daze, unable to make decisions like "should I shower now" or what to eat, so I wind up eating out or ordering way more than I should.
It hasn't helped that my last few bulk cooks have made me feel rather sick, so I've just been avoiding what used to be regular foods when I was unemployed.
Also what used to be a 15 minute trip to the shops is now a few hours.
This is how we convert them. Using burger metrics to help understand the labor theory of value.
how many burgers do you need to make a coat?
We talking coats back in Marx's day or like a North face jacket?
only the most synthetic of polymer fleeces!
So uh instead of saying 10 yards of Lenin do we say like ten oil barrels of crude?
10 yards of Lenin
I've heard of size queens but this is ridiculous
Soz for slipping in some personal interests 
let's say cheeseburgers, specifically. american cheese can be readily turned into polyester, i understand.
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Before I went vegan, I had the idea to make a site that calculates the cost of Whoppers in your geographic area so you could say something like "I'm not buying this new game, I could get 27 Whoppers for that price" when your friends question why you pirate everything.
Technically still could but Impossible Whoppers are going to be a significantly worse ratio.
many ppl are saying this. the burger is a window and door into the American mind
I mean they are 100000% right about restaurants over charging for shit, the rest of that price difference sure as shit isn't going to labor
a bunch goes to rent, gotta 
so we can have cheaper restaurants and fair wages
It's actually wild how much speculation has driven up rent for businesses. I've seen pretty popular spots just get crushed by it. Petit beoug getting gobbled up by the bigger fish
It's baffling more people support this system. A lot of popular shops all over my state have closed not because they weren't making money, but because they could no longer afford to rent the buildings they were in. After closing, they've sat empty for years. Landlords would rather make $0 each month than charge less rent.
Of course, liberals and other chuds will blame nonsense like crime, immigrants, minimum wage, and so on before they blame any actual reasons.
Chuds pat themselves on the back for being soooo brave to have the courage^TM^ to say that if all homeless people and minorities get genocided, that would solve the housing crisis?
But the nanosecond anyone calls out landlords being greedy you’re either called a naive kid at best or you get lectured by the same people who just advocated genocide on how it’s not nice to tell landlords they have enough.
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Hmmm someone should write a book on the petty bourgeois and how they aspire to become bourgeois but are more likely to fall back down into the proletariat.
damn shame nobody's written on this very interesting and relevant topic.
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That’s my main “small business chud” talking point, ridiculous rents that drive up the base cost for absolutely everything and drive small businesses out.
A co-workers wife has had a used bookstore for a few years, had low rent negotiated with this cool old Chinese man. He passed away, the property was sold, and their rent is jumping so much she’ll have to close.
I foresaw this happening to them when they confided in me how precarious their business was and even then how much of what they made went towards rent despite them paying half “market value.” She doesn’t even pay herself a Salary, they just barely break even. When I asked them about it at the time it was just some nebulous future problem for them.
I've tried to tell people that the demand and supply for these sort of buildings exists basically entirely uncoupled from the local conditions which are basically entirely a non-factor since more and more they're all just in some portfolio of commercial infrastructure fond where expected rent earnings over the next 40 years justify never lowering the rent because then all those earning projections just blow up. What's 2 years of no rent against 38 years of getting only half? But I'm usually assured that this multi decade spanning issue will surely see a market correction and dump all the rent prices, give it a year or two - tops.
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I've never once ordered a doordash in my life.
I dont even like eating out, having people wait on me makes me uncomfotable
it'd be different if we were abe to go to massive soviet style caffeterias, but some bougie resturaunt? No thanks
Sounds like my uncle
Buys those pre-formed bulk budget burger patties that come in a box
He grills them until they taste like ash and woe and then goes on and on about how much money he saves
That's because those things are full of so much fat they just go up in flames
I figured it was because they were packed with sawdust
The whole thing is pink sawdust and fat
Revolution will come to America last but when it does arrive it will be because the price of burger
Revelations will come to America last but when it does arrive it will be because the price of burger
5 When He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come!” I looked, and behold, a black horse, and the one who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, "A cheeseburger for a day's wages, and a basket of chicken wings for a day's wages, and do not damage the corn syrup or bud light!"
Critical thinking skill if it were a negative number
Just out here showing your compete ignorance on main
BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO NOT PAY SERVERS A FAIR WAGE
Or food delivery people
Real talk if that restaurant makes 1 of surplus value on that 20 burger the owner is happy. Restaurants (fast food aside) are not surplus value machines, quite the opposite.
I'd also like to know where food is still that cheap in the west.
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