Assuming this was around 1994, and adjusting for inflation, it should still be under $2.
That’s only taking into account monetary devaluation, not inflation of goods and services (or vice versa)
What?
Monetary devaluation is an economic policy Inflation is literally the “general increase in the prices of goods and services”
Inflation is market derived and does not include devaluation of the currency, source is your own link on deflation.
In a global economy goods and services are sourced internationally and are subject to various exchange rates. Rarely anything is ever 100% domestic
Monetary devaluation is the only thing that gives any thin-veiled justificstion for price increases. Anything not covered by the inflation calculator is greed.
The whole supply chain increased their prices as well. Did you take that into account?
The supply chain presumably cost something in the first pic too. The prices of those things should have also gone up according to inflation. So wouldn’t they also be included in the “inflation adjusted” figure? It’s not like they were calculating what it cost without needing a supply chain.
In fact, I would think that if anything, the overall price of supply chains would have decreased as technology got better (better fuel, better gas mileage, better routes, better forms of transportation, better computer models to predict outcomes, etc).
Supposedly the argument for the recent absurd food prices is because of oil prices increasing (translates to shipping costs increasing) so much with Russia invading Ukraine and everyones sanctions on Russian oil plus the disruption of wheat production in Ukraine.
And then there’s just plain old fucking greed.
So, Ryan Gosling was 29 years old in the top picture. Damn is he a great actor.
https://www.tacobell.com/food/burritos/beefy-5-layer-burrito
Looks like the actual price is $3.79
I found a picture of a taco bell menu from late 2023 showing the beefy 5-layer for $2.19.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tacobell/comments/180gjxn/whats_your_favorite_menu_item/
