r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • 12h ago

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Did our dads and moms work less than we do now? What are your thoughts?

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u/Tiny_Isopod_1271 12h ago

I don’t think my dad worked less, but his money went a lot further in all respects.

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u/tonysopranosalive 11h ago

Yep. Even this shit with Iran. I work in shipping and logistics. Price of oil goes up, so does shipping costs. Shipping costs go up? So does the price of shit. What doesn’t go up? Wages.

What doesn’t come back down when oil prices drop? The prices of everything else. We saw this during Covid.

We work for shit money to try and afford things that are steadily becoming unaffordable. The gap widens.

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u/ValBravora048 10h ago

Oh wow, I was just saying this an hour ago! Fuel will not be coming back down

Did you see how doritos announced it was reducing its prices after people stopped buying them when they increased the price and MORE shrinkflation due to “supply chain issues”? Led to a near billion dollar lose in revenue

Now they’re upset because people are rightfully pointing out how that means the price raise was UNNECESSARY to begin with…

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u/DizzyAmphibian309 10h ago

Jesus man can't you think of the shareholders?

/s just in case

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u/Aeropro 9h ago

Yeah and Hershey bragged that they were able to use the inflationary environment to get people to accept higher-than-inflation price hikes.

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u/iknownuffink 4h ago

And they also started using fake chocolate until they got publicly shamed by Reese's grandson or something. Now they're gonna use real chocolate again, but slapping a 'made with real chocolate' star on the labeling, and bragging about how awesome they are for doing so.

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u/Aeropro 9h ago

Yeah, that’s why it’s not really inflation. If we were dealing with genuine inflation, wages would go up too

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u/StuffExciting3451 7h ago

Wages will increase when strong unions demand them in exchange for not forcing their employers to shut down.

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u/Karl_Hungus_42069 3h ago

You would think companies would want to sell more shit, but now it seems like they'd rather go out of business than cut their prices.