This Problem Is Nothing New, But This Specific Example With These Numbers Puts It Into A Fucking Brutal

This problem is nothing new, but this specific example with these numbers puts it into a fucking brutal perspective.

To put these numbers a different way: A Taco Bell burrito that used to cost ~7 minutes and 20 seconds of minimum wage work now costs ~30 minutes and 30 seconds of minimum wage work.

You used to be able to work at Taco Bell anywhere in the country and make enough money in one hour to buy at least 8 burritos (maybe 9 if you're a manager or something) and feed, like, 3-4 people a decently-filling meal. But now, the same amount of work at the same job will get you one meal for one person. And this change has happened over a mere 15 years.

Remember this whenever you see rich people demonize younger generations for our financial situations, when they call us irresponsible for not investing a ton of money in savings accounts.

and if i wrote a prequel to my chilaios angst fic with chilchuck and falin? what then, huh? who's gonna stop me?

I'm curious. Tag this with your sexuality and what your favorite M/F ship is.

and if i told you i gave the oc i made for my chilaios angst fic a four page comic, what then? what would you do? try to stop me?

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Ookiku Furikabutte | Big Windup! Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Abe Takaya/Mihashi Ren, Abe Takaya & Mihashi Ren, Mihashi Ren & Nishiura High School Baseball Team, Abe Takaya & Nishiura High School Baseball Team Characters: Abe Takaya, Mihashi Ren, Nishiura High School Baseball Team Additional Tags: Soft Abe Takaya, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, minor self injury, Mihashi has a couple unhealthy coping mechanisms throughout, Bullying, Implied/Referenced Abuse, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Abe POV, aka mihashi learning he is loved and supported (namely by abe) the fic, nishinura baseball team more like mihashi defense squad, affirmations, a surprising lack of handholding (thus far), Implied/Referenced Physical Abuse Summary:

Abe isn't an especially nice person, but when it comes to Mihashi's confidence as a pitcher, he guesses he can make an exception. Especially once he learns the extent of what happened to him at Mihoshi.

It's all just to help them become a battery after all, right?