Comment on McDonald’s reports largest U.S. same-store sales decline since 2020
RejZoR@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Also fast food used to be cheap, now most Americans complain it’s getting ridiculously expensive. And this was happening before dumb Trump took over.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Nothing is cheap anymore.
Hunter Thompson’s book “Hell’s Angels” was published in 1967. At the time, the author pointed out that a biker could work six months as a Union stevedore and earn enough to live on the road for two years. In those days a part time waitress could make enough to support herself and her boy friend.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 6 days ago
In the early 80’s my mom left my abusive father, with 3 kids in tow, and managed to buy a (shitty) car, rent a (shitty) house, and feed all three of us with a waitress job at Golden fucking Corral (paying for child care while she was at work, too!), and all the while not getting a dime in support from dear alcoholic dad. It wasn’t easy but it was possible. That’s no longer true.
I have watched the world become impossible for younger people to thrive in, and it’s really depressing.
Snowclone@lemmy.world 6 days ago
At this point you need to have hope everything breaks.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It’s really important to have these kinds of abilities in order to have a functioning society as well. In the current situation, everything has to go perfectly for children to even have a mediocre upbringing. Their mom and their dad have to both be pretty well-educated and work jobs good enough to afford the increasingly out of control costs of living.
If a single parent has the ability with a mediocre job to fund a household, it makes it much easier to bear the usual societal ills such as one or the other parent not being dependable.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Sad and true.