/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16800062]

Why are groceries and dining out getting so expensive?

[Anonymous No.16800071]

>>16800062
>>>/biz/
FUCK OFF

[Anonymous No.16800089]

Something something inflation. But at least our wages are going up too, right?

[Anonymous No.16800096]

>>16800062

The elites are buying up food distribution so as to create desperation in order to end the “labor shortage”

[Anonymous No.16800099]

>>16800062
cause of the virus

[Anonymous No.16800100]

>>16800062
Actually prices are the same, but Dr. Anthony Fauci is using 5G antennas to reprogram your memories

[Anonymous No.16800104]

>>16800089
If only our politicians weren't too afraid to implement strong inflation controls so we can just have better wages without it being nullified by everything becoming more expensive immediately.

[Anonymous No.16800117]

>>16800062
It's trumps fault

[Anonymous No.16800126]

>>16800104
>If only our politicians weren't too afraid to implement strong inflation controls
Inflation is crucial to the current financial order so that ain't happening.

[Anonymous No.16800137]

>>16800126
I don't see how it is. Canada and Denmark both have fine inflation control and they have better economies than the US.

[Anonymous No.16800204]

>>16800137
maybe having universal healthcare reduces the barriers to innovation as people can take risks with starting small businesses that would be a death sentence if tried in america where we're free to be ruined for life by one unplanned ambulance ride

[Anonymous No.16800268]

>>16800204
Just another fine example of why Social Democracy is the best system. It isn't leftist bullshit, it still provides economic democracy (arguably more), but it still provides for it's people and regulates the quality of work and goods enough that people are happier. Much lower poverty and crime rates as well.In turn, the economy prospers. Better businesses and products, happier people, wealthier economy. And everyone has an inherent right to the two things that everyone requires in life: education and healthcare.
Why does America resist such a system? Because idealism clouds the judgement of americans. In america, you'll only find three people. Neoliberal democrats (who aren't all that different from republicans but pretend to be), hardened republicans who don't realize that their system is flawed because they have their head shoved too far up their ass, and bastard communists. None of these people have brains.

[Anonymous No.16800280]

>>16800204
lol just get a job and insurance ya dingus

[Anonymous No.16800282]

>>16800137
>>16800268
just shut the fuck up

[Anonymous No.16800287]

>>16800062
Joe Biden

[Anonymous No.16800297]

>>16800137
>Canada and Denmark
>better economies than the US
If the US decided to decouple itself from international trade, the entire system would collapse.

[Anonymous No.16800320]

>>16800282
Great rebuttal friend. Enjoy paying for healthcare!
>>16800297
Lmao, no, most of their trade is with Chy-nuh and Mexico, just like how most of our trade is with them. America could disappear and we wouldn't give a shit.

[Anonymous No.16800470]

>>16800204
This guy really thinks people don't start small businesses because of healthcare of all things

[Anonymous No.16800493]

>>16800320
>most of their trade is with Chy-nuh and Mexico
The real problem is highly specialized chemicals and components that are made only in the US. Entire businesses could collapse because their machinery requires a made-in-USA obscure spare part.

[Anonymous No.16800519]

>>16800320

Fuck you

I literally live in Germany, and I pay out my fucking ass for health insurance here, which is far less efficient than any treatment I'd get in the U.S. I'm just glad I haven't been sick in the four years I have been here, and for most of the times I've visited home I just have my routine checkups done there. God knows how long I would wait to get an appointment to figure out what's wrong, just for my doctor to tell me to drink Kräutertee and take two weeks off of work when I actually need a transfusion, medication, or real fucking treatment. They won't do anything until you're nearly at death's door because the healthcare scheme is fucking bankrupt.

>maybe having universal healthcare reduces the barriers to innovation as people can take risks with starting small businesses...

I also assumed this as a dumb kid and it turned out to be a total falsehood. Entrepeneurship is a completely overrated scheme of application upon application to state funding agencies who practically refuse understand anything about the project you are trying to realize, and banks who are unwilling to assist in the smallest of ways. You can sit paying fees to have your company open for years, and not even be able to consider taking out a loan to pursue a project or any reasonable expansion. Instead you're relegated to subcontract your labor to bigger firms for piss-poor rates, it's a fucking disgrace. VCs are a complete joke, and/or nonexistent outside the busy capitals that basically conduct commerce like American governments anyway because they realize how fucking dumb the whole scheme they've devised is.

Social democracy is a scam. Now I am just here on this continent to try to enjoy the geographical exoticism and have a few nice years of travel.

[Anonymous No.16800521]

>>16800493
This probably won't be a problem anymore because China is the economic superpower now and they pretty much produce everything under the sun. Whatever obscure made-in-USA part you need will be offered by some random brand like iYOOSUNGCHING on Amazon in the next five years.

[Anonymous No.16800523]

Because you're getting poorer

[Anonymous No.16800530]

>>16800521
Yea but the 6 months needed for iYOOSUNGCHING to set up a production line and offer the part on alibaba would be pure chaos.

[Anonymous No.16800649]

someone took the time
Pick fresh food for you +$
Prep ingredient +$
Cook +$
Serve you +$
doing dishes for you +$
o yea paying for the fuking food +$
Taxe +$

[Anonymous No.16800668]

>>16800530
That's still not gonna stop them from trying.
You know how the fucking Chinese are.

[Anonymous No.16800682]

>>16800062
because you're still not eating the bugs, silly goy

[Anonymous No.16800688]

Supply chain got fucked

[Anonymous No.16800704]

>>16800117
you'll never be a woman

[Anonymous No.16801435]

It looks like we're hitting another "food shortage" on top of a labor shortage. So everything is going up because it's becoming harder to get things and companies are having to pay higher wages to convince people to start working again.

>>16800089
>But at least our wages are going up too, right?
I know that this is food-related thread on a Mongolian basket weaving forum, but I had a random thought today about how I have no idea what people want. I remember people being up in arms with wanting $15/hr as the new minimum wage. A lot of companies and I think even a few states are offering that now. I stumbled on a hiring ad Facebook and out of blunt curiosity I read the comments because I thought $15/hr to put things in a box in a warehouse was pretty good money for a fairly easy job. However, there were tons of people whining that $15/hr wasn't a livable wage and companies needed to raise wages to even higher amounts.

I get that $15/hr isn't much, especially if you're working part-time, but it's doable and way more than $7.25/hr. I'm all for people asking for more or for what they believe they are worth. I do feel like companies do fuck employees over pay wise to maximize their profits. But do people really think they can get or deserve $50K a year on their first day at McDonald's? Or am I just that out of touch with the world?

Thanks for letting me ramble.

[Anonymous No.16801457]

>>16800104
inflation blows up money, so politicians can point to increased gdp and pat themselves on the back even though no real growth took place.

[Anonymous No.16801547]

>>16801435
>But do people really think they can get or deserve $50K a year on their first day at McDonald's?

Yes, they really do. They also think all other wages would scale to it instead of stagnating.
Source- Grew up in pdx

[Anonymous No.16801554]

>>16801547
Greeting from Virginia!
I hate leftists so much it's unreal

[Anonymous No.16801573]

>>16800089
That's the problem, the wages aren't going up. Most zoomers are making under 30k a year.

[Anonymous No.16801581]

>>16800062
Inflation combined with supply and demand. Simple as.

[Anonymous No.16801588]

>>16800062

[Anonymous No.16801600]

>>16801573
Sell your body, zoomzoom. I'll pay you $50 to cram a cucumber up your ass while I jerk off

[Anonymous No.16801607]

Overpopulation. All of you right-wingers against population control are really going to enjoy having two thirds of your salaries used for your daily 400g of rice a and 200g of dried bugs whenever we reach max population density.

[Anonymous No.16801615]

>>16800062
I'm in California so it's really hard to tell.

[Anonymous No.16801629]

>>16801607
Right wingers want to close the borders, that's a population control measure right there you disingenuous retard

[Anonymous No.16801653]

>>16801629
>moving a person from one side of an imaginary line to the other = world population increase
Fucking retarded redneck, I swear to god I'd cave your face on the pavement and reduce the population by one if I ever crossed you. Think I'm joking? Think again, faggot. You're fucking dead.

[Anonymous No.16801659]

>>16801653

[Anonymous No.16801667]

>>16801653
It solves the US problems
Let them starve in mexico if they want to have 12 kids
Also no wonder you want us disarmed, come try smashing my face and I have an extended clip with 50 quiet pills for your overly vocal ass

[Anonymous No.16801668]

>>16801573
>Most zoomers are making under 30k a year.
shee-it, I'm at 65 after this last promotion.

[Anonymous No.16801833]

>>16800062
The food going away nigga stock up now. I work in retail distribution and all the buzz is to stock the fuck up now. Toilet paper shortages are expected again. Don't say I didn't warn you

[Anonymous No.16802088]

>>16801653
>>moving a person from one side of an imaginary line to the other = world population increase
Yes

If you move a person from a country experiencing high population growth to one experiencing low/none, you have delayed the point at which the high-pop-growth country will reached a stabilised, developed level.

[Anonymous No.16802093]

>>16801667
Boomer

[Anonymous No.16802096]

>>16800062
Globally-homogenized Corporate Socialism solidifying as the new socioeconomic foundationals, for the goal of a neo-feudal society.

[Anonymous No.16802106]

>>16800204
>canada
>reduced barriers to innovation
You what negroid? Shit here is far too expensive for people to break into the small business sphere. That shit's dead and buried, the megacorps have won.

[Anonymous No.16802119]

>>16800268
>Why does America resist such a system?
Because it only works up to a certain size and with a certain demographic makeup, which every Social Democracy country is learning fast after their experiments with warped xenoidoltrist mass immigration has caught up to them and is crumbling the entire system.

[Anonymous No.16802123]

>>16800062
Federal Reserve...
Jews...

[Anonymous No.16802128]

>>16802119
The US hasn't been a county of mass immigration the last 200+ years?

[Anonymous No.16802130]

>>16801607
>...But we all need to freak out in collective hysteria over a new flu because no one should ever die anymore

[Anonymous No.16802136]

>>16802128
Only white Europeans were allowed to immigrate until 1965. Coincidentally that's when everything started going wrong.

[Anonymous No.16802144]

>>16802136
>until 1965
1860s*

[Anonymous No.16802199]

>>16800268
>Why does America resist such a system?
I'd rather not have the government check if I've made a racist comment before fixing my cancer.
I'd rather not have fat people, illegal immigrants, single moms and hypochondriacs blocking up wait times.
We have too many people. Some need to go.

[Anonymous No.16802207]

>>16802199
Genocide daydreams aren't realistic or helpful

[Anonymous No.16802211]

>>16802207
Who said anything about genocide?

[Anonymous No.16802224]

>>16802211
>I want to kill a large number of a certain demographic, but it's not genocide

[Anonymous No.16802230]

>>16802199
You and your idiotic vax conspiracy friends are the ones clogging up the hospitals, not single mothers. I hope you drown in your own mucus

[Anonymous No.16802233]

>>16802224
Okay, two questions:
Who is the certain demographic?
When is letting people die killing them?

[Anonymous No.16802246]

>>16802230
I don't have a vax conspiracy. I just don't think the coof is a big deal. I already had it, I was fine. My parents were fine, my siblings were all fine. Everyone I know who had it is completely fine.

If it kills you, you're supposed to die.

[Anonymous No.16802259]

>>16802246
We should get rid of all medicine
If it kills you, you're supposed to die

[Anonymous No.16802266]

>>16802259
I never said you couldn't get treatment for shit. Stop trying to reductio ad absurdum me.

[Anonymous No.16802277]

>>16802266
I just don't think cancer is a big deal. I already had it, I was fine. My parents were fine, my siblings were all fine. Everyone I know who had it is completely fine.

If it kills you, you're supposed to die.

[Anonymous No.16802288]

>>16801435
$15/hr minimum wage has been the rallying cry of the left for well over 10 years now. It was barely a living wage before covidflation, but now it's a joke. You can barely even live in rural Mississippi on $15/hr now unless you work 70 hours a week.

[Anonymous No.16802301]

>>16802277
Statistically, yes. My grandma had it, too. She's fine. But again, I'm not saying you can't get treatment for anything.

[Anonymous No.16802306]

>>16802288
20$ an hour where i live doesn't even qualify you to be someone's roommate

[Anonymous No.16802318]

>>16802144
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965

You uneducated little wormtongue

[Anonymous No.16802319]

>>16800089
Raise the minimum wage to six BILLION dollars

[Anonymous No.16802323]

>>16802318
De facto discrimination is not "only Europeans allowed"

[Anonymous No.16802334]

>>16802207
Making white people a minority isn't going to be helpful to keeping any realistic system afloat, especially if you have a bloated heathcare monstrosity with a majority being parasites on it.

[Anonymous No.16802339]

Democracy is fucking gay lol. The us is an oligarchy ran by whatever company gives the politicians more gibs.

[Anonymous No.16802341]

>>16802277
>this is the person calling you a crazed conspiracy theorist
why is it always a compete lunatic losing his shit over covid hysteria

[Anonymous No.16802343]

>>16802136
Irish, Italians, Slavs, Southern Europeans, etc. were not considered white 100 years ago. It's literally a social construct that was born in America. Hell, in the colonial era, Germans weren't even considered white.

[Anonymous No.16802352]

>>16802343
they were onto something

[Anonymous No.16802354]

>>16800062
Lack of ability to distribute goods. Plenty are just sitting in warehouses. People advertise for truckers, but the companies sometimes don't have trucks and are getting new ones in. Truckers that have their trucks break down don't have the ability to fix them without parts. Some don't want to deliver sure. But there's an issue of us no longer manufacturing shit here and no longer getting what we need to feed the arteries (AKA INTERSTATES) that keep America afloat. Should have invested in locally instead of having shit made overseas to save a few pennies (only to pay for insane shipping to find out the parts crack so you have to throw out most of them anyways.)

[Anonymous No.16802361]

>>16802323
why not? or are you so baseless right now you're going to spend twenty posts hyperfocusing on the semantics in those three words and how they're not 100.01% absolutist in description, almost as if it was a simple casual phrase in a simple anonymous post.

[Anonymous No.16802362]

>>16802199
>I'd rather not have the government check if I've made a racist comment before fixing my cancer.
This is not necessary for social democracy. Social democracy is economics, not government. We can control the government aspect. Canada doesn't deny people treatment for their political standings for example and neither does Norway or Denmark. This might be the case in america because our neoliberal population has skyrocketed, but we will cross that bridge when we get to it.
>I'd rather not have fat people, illegal immigrants, single moms and hypochondriacs blocking up wait times.
Fat people seldom exist in most social democracies (with the exception of canada) because they have proper health programs, proper food regulation (americans will call this "controlling what they eat" because americans are fat asses), and proper physical education programs. So you needn't worry about fat people existing in general.
Illegal immigrants can be dealt with. Again, that's government, not economics. It impacts economics, but it's not inherent to it. That is a government thing. Being permissive with immigration is not necessary for social democracy. We can have tight border patrols if we wanted.
Single moms and their kids need healthcare just as much as you do. I don't know why you bring them into this. You are no more important than a mother and her child (so long as they are there legally). Hypochondriacs will exist regardless of the system, the only way to fix this would be to change the way hospitals screen patients before they come in, but this wouldn't make the ER the "emergency room" then, now would it?

Everything you just said is basically a non-point.

[Anonymous No.16802373]

>>16802361
The rat writhes and squirms under the boot of truth

[Anonymous No.16802379]

>>16802343
>Irish, Italians, Slavs, Southern Europeans, etc. were not considered white 100 years
They were discriminated against, but the idea that "whiteness" was ever a facet of that is a modern invention as whiteness became a prerequisite to the new definition of racism and oppression. You are commiting the historical sin of presentism.

[Anonymous No.16802384]

>>16802362
It absolutely baffles me that, even after a pandemic, the US is doubling down on neoliberalism.

[Anonymous No.16802393]

>>16802373
the post >>16802323 had a delightfully insecre squeak to it in it's brevity, yes

[Anonymous No.16802408]

>>16802384
You really fucking want government to regulate the economy more? Every time they touched regulations on silver, gold, stock trade, etc it was to rape the vast majority of Americans.

[Anonymous No.16802413]

>>16802362
>We can control the government aspect.
kek
>Canada doesn't deny people treatment for their political standings for example and neither does Norway or Denmark.
No, but England does. These countries also have a way smaller, more homogenous population.
> proper health programs, proper food regulation, and proper physical education programs.
Good luck getting Americans (including myself) to agree or participate in ANY of this. I'm not even fat and the thought of the government controlling what I can eat or when I have to exercise makes me sick.
>Single moms and their kids need healthcare just as much as you do.
I was just referencing those stupid moms who freak out when their baby has a cough, runny nose, or a gets a scratch and runs off to the hospital just to be told "he's got a cold just fucking chill out" or won't stop crying just to be told "he's teething" or something equally stupid. Most men in general do not use hospitals unless something is really wrong with them.

[Anonymous No.16802414]

>>16802379
Whiteness was absolutely a facet of it. If you weren't a land-owning WASP male, you didn't matter. And you're delusional if you think that has no ramifications for the present day.

[Anonymous No.16802470]

>>16800682
I'm not eating the bugs, klaus. There's plenty of squirrel and kudzu around here.

[Anonymous No.16802511]

>>16800649

[Anonymous No.16802574]

>>16800268
because that all means niggers have more and i have less. i'm happy and would be less happy under that system. it's not much better that 10 niggers are slightly happier and i'm alot less happy when i put in all the work and some nig nog thousands of miles away got my gibs. it's not surprising your free higher education doesn't teach you empirical thought

[Anonymous No.16802679]

>>16802413
>Good luck getting Americans (including myself) to agree or participate in ANY of this. I'm not even fat and the thought of the government controlling what I can eat or when I have to exercise makes me sick.
Exactly my point. Because you americans are fat pieces of shit who cannot stand the thought of NOOO NOT MUH TRANSFATS RIGHTS. You will live, fatty. You will live even better than you did before without all that cholesterol clogging your heart.

Americans do not want social democracy because they are afraid of change for the better and think that regulation for the good of us all is the end of the world. Glad I don't live in fuckin burger land lmao, because you are the most pigheaded people on planet earth.

[Anonymous No.16802691]

>>16802343
>that was born in America

The concept of being "white" actually starts with the spanish reconquista period. I'm gonna take a guess that you're not familiar with the latin american casta system or behaviors of dutch in indochina.

[Anonymous No.16802692]

>>16802679
Living long isn't the point, faggot. It's about living however you want. That's the American way. I don't care how undesirables live, I just don't want my money supporting it.

[Anonymous No.16802706]

>>16802574
If you can't argue your point without mentioning arbitrary race politics or mentioning your inability to be giving, you really have no point.
"Yeah I may have like $2K left in my bank account that I literally have no intention of spending ever at the end of each month, but i don't want da gubermind taking a mere 10% of that to pay for mental hospitals for those who literally cannot work! Put them on the street! No I won't participate in society, gibme more money!!!"
You don't have a place in society if you refuse to contribute. Period. You belong on a deserted island. You do not exist in a bubble if you coexist with other people and you will either contribute or fuck off. You cannot hoard and coexist with others. You WILL not. You will not have it both ways.
If you lack humanity to that extent, maybe it would be best if you also went in the mental hospital for sociopathy.

[Anonymous No.16802713]

>>16802679
Last time you guys had a social democracy I liked you murdered it because it dissolved centralized banking. Some major European countries have the winning party controlling as little as 25% of the populations support, with the next one down being 17%. It's less Democracy and more playing scratch-off tickets.

[Anonymous No.16802719]

>>16800062
Because private equity is driving everything. >>16800104
Join a union.
>>16800100
Sadly, around of murrikkkans believe this

[Anonymous No.16802796]

>>16802706
Doctors can't treat personality disorders.

[Anonymous No.16802820]

>>16800137
Shut the fuck up everything is more expensive here than the states even considering the exchange rate
t. Canadian

[Anonymous No.16802828]

>>16800062
The system was already a house of cards, but marks thought a virus with a 99% survival rate was worth tanking the economy for.

[Anonymous No.16802872]

>>16802820
>Shut the fuck up everything is more expensive here than the states even considering the exchange rate
>t. Canadian
Yeah, I'm in Manitoba, that's not a problem here. You're probably a BC fag.

[Anonymous No.16802902]

>>16801435
$15 or even 20/hr isn't enough to support yourself now

[Anonymous No.16803276]

>>16800062
because of the 46th President of the United States of America, Joseph Robinette Biden