Why is Vincent Vega so concerned about a $5 milkshake when he had just bought $300 worth of heroin?
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Why is Vincent Vega so concerned about a $5 milkshake when he had just bought $300 worth of heroin?
He's an addict, not a israelite.
its the principle of the thing. like when he said he would kill the guy who keyed his car
Ironic cause the guy who keyed his car killed him
>TIPPING IS BAD
>$5 IS EXPENSIVE
why does he use every character as a mouthpiece for his hot takes with some pre-rehearsed 'witty' delivery when irl he stutters
Boomers always complained about rising prices but never pieced together the big scam of inflation.
Putting this seemingly innocuous dialogue in the movie helped people think the movie was real.
>Boomers always complained about rising prices but never pieced together the big scam of inflation.
Some do. My parents hate the existence of the Federal Reserve.
$5 used to be a lot of money for a cheap item like a shake. Sodas were also super cheap but now cost almost as much as a beer does
>he lives in a state that has sales tax and overcharges on soda
lol lmao even
So where do you live that has no sales tax and soda is cheap?
It's funny when you think about it. The value of heroin has dropped considerably while that milkshake shot up in price since the movie premiered
relativity, if you're used to ketchup costing 5 dollars, and you see it for 3 dollars, then it's cheap. If you see it for 7, you're not buying that shit.
Have you ever met anyone who shoots up? That’s $5 less to buy dope.
that's the joke
Probably because the purchasing power of the burgerland dollar has been falling every month since August 1940.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUUR0000SA0R
We need to go back to 1933 bros... America's most prosperous decade
And how much were people getting paid in 1920? Probably a few bucks a day.
This shit is not as simple as it seems, it's complicated by the money supply and the Federal Reserve.
There's no doubt that the Fed turned everything to shit, but those "few bucks a day" went a lot further than they do now.
$15 dollars a week in 1940 is worth £329.77 now. Not too bad; other than the extortionate rent/mortgage and general costs of living that frick us.
See for yourself: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
And for the record, $15 a week in 1920 would be worth $230.84 today.
But costs of living were so much less, so saving and/or having disposable income would be easy.
I make way more than $230 a week, and I'm not even a high earner, I'm just a wagie who promoted and demanded raises and shit.
I make more at my job than people that have been there for 15 years kek.
>oey vey goyim its complicated
ever notice how 'its complicated' is basically a way to signal to people to just shut up and not think about it?
Indeed. Realising that there's rising inflation and collapsing purchasing power is one of life's Red Pills.
Arguably, it's a Black Pill, seeing as there's nothing we can do about these thieving wienersuckers who frick everyone over.
Even saving money (if it's even possible now) is pointless, because money is devalued every fricking year. Now it's every quarter.
Day of the rope, when?
>muh index funds
>muh compounding interest
>401k
i always wondered why commercials telling you to buy gold with your cash was a thing, but i guess they just take the money and then invest it. really the only thing that matters is property and even that is becoming something that won't exist in 30 years. being a beach bum somewhere nice suddenly doesn't sound so bad
>buy gold
Yeah. Investing in gold and silver (and in big companies like Google and Amazon) seems to be the only way to beat inflation and collapsing purchasing power. I just wish that I could get started.
>get a job
>cut expenses
>put every extra cent into gold
it's that simple numbnuts. you'll have to figure out the rest yourself
i put $7k into the bank this year after expenses.
It's more a case of where the frick to buy the gold or shares from without getting fricking robbed.
Findbullionprices.com
>shares
If you don't hold it, you don't own it.
>And how much were people getting paid in 1920? Probably a few bucks a day.
Which was enough to buy a nice house in a nice neighborhood and afford to have a stay-at-home wife and three kids, with a nice vacation a few times a year.
When i was 7 my dad went off his brain because his friend recommended a place and when he went there the shakes were $5. he was used to buying mcdonalds shakes.
I would be like paying $10 for a shake today.
More. A Big Mac combo with fries and a drink only cost $2.45. It would be like
A large McD's milkshake in bongland, ordered on a delivery app (Just Eat - AKA Grubhub), costs 3.79. Which is 4.59 in burgerland money. Checking your Grubhub in somewhere like Kansas, a large McD's milkshake is 5.09.
Damn. For once, your fast food is getting more expensive than ours.
When watching sports streams from burgerland in years past, I was amazed at how cheap your fast food prices were. You used to be able to get a lot of food for five bucks.
Fast food is pointless. It used to be serviceable because it was cheap but a quarter pounder meal from mickyDs is the same price as a steak tip dinner from some restraunt
fast food also used to be fast
That too. Now you’re sitting there for a half hour in line. NOT ONLY THAT but after lockdowns ingredients, meat, everything became like 5x more expensive (that’s a good thing chud!) so they cheaped out on ingredients making the food not even a guilty pleasure tasty treat anymore, it tastes like shit I would never get fast food. I’d rather just stop at 7-11 and get a banana or some shit. I was gonna say a ham saandeich but those 7-11 sandwiches are like 7 bucks now for a 5” with like 1 slice of meat.
Ingredient prices didn't go up very much, McDonalds just decided they were going to charge way more because not even a global lockdown over, riots, and general instability could shake their customers from lining up for literal miles every day of the week. Look at McDonalds Corp. P&L sheets sometime. They are making a lot of fricking money now. Same with many other companies and industries. They're charging more not to survive but for fat stacks and assurance their place in society is rock solid.
I'm surprised that somebody thinks they only recently started cheaping out on ingredients. I chuckled.
I can only imagine how kino and cost effective 1950s burgerland was.
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Incidentally, aside from 2009, purchasing power in Britain has been falling every year since 1934.
It's fricked, bros.
less Black person spit too
Unless people are getting frozen/refrigerated food from Walmart, Target or any supermarket type, what is the cheapest easily attainable food, if fast food places are too expensive now?
Given the recent Gordon Ramsay memes, I see that his new ready meals at Walmart cost $6.24 (which is £5.15 over here).
>what is the cheapest easily attainable food
fresh
a steak tip dinner at a restaurant is $8? where?
A quarter pounder meal is $8? Where? Last time I went to micky Ds it was 18 bucks but I got a shake with it so it was close to 25 bucks.
It's $8.69 on the mcdonalds app
Oh yeah I forgot in order to get a SEMI-reasonable price you have to interface with an app now.
Can I just have a burger ffs? Frick me.
that's without coupons so the store price is probably the same. with the app you can get 20% off the price as well. mcdonalds is still cheap compared to real food
Acceptable for a high-quality boozy shake, but it had better be good
That Big Kahuna burger looked fricking tasty though.
Sadly, burgers at cafes/diners are expensive as frick.
Even fast food joints are overpriced now.
you can get 4 pre made burgers or half a pound of groundbeef for less than a price of a Jackrabbit Slim Milkshake
The same reason I dropped $2,000 on a gaming PC without a second thought, but I won't spend $10 buying McDonalds. I expect to pay more for the good shit, price is no object. But when it comes to things I need every day, like food, energy, shelter, I am more discriminating in my purchasing.
You wouldn't known this, which is why central planning fails. You can't possibly know more about me than me. You can't know more about what I need or want than me.
If we're going to have a welfare state, we should just be putting money directly into pockets and trusting people to use it wisely, instead of this horseshit where half of it goes to administration and the other half is funneled into the food and healthcare industries.
>we should just be putting money directly into pockets and trusting people to use it wisely
Based and UBI Pilled. It's about time that the profiteers who have gouged is in product prices and wages for the past 40-50 years gave something back.
>$5USD was $38USD in 1970 when adjusted for inflation
Lmao what the frick was in that milkshake? cocaine?
Going to a Themed Diner does not actually transport you back in time, in case you thought it did.
the movie is set in the 70s, dumbass
no it isn't
Pulp Fiction was not a period piece. It took place in 1993/1994, the time it was released. Go be a moron somewhere else.
not even cocaine cost that much in 1970
A five buck shake in 1994 would cost $10.38 now.
He knows the value of things. That heroin is worth 300 dollars, the milkshake is not worth five.
It's a little fricked up how that's something that dates the movie, because $5 for a milkshake now isn't surprising, it's just normal.
I really wish he could have rolled back prices to 1965, bros.
the most money I ever spent on drugs is $70 for a 1 gram cart of weed oil, and while it was definitely tasty, the high wasn't any particularly better than my regular $30 carts.
wasn't it a wholesale deal or something? I don't know if $300 for heroin is a lot
>$300
And nobody even questions this. He spent thousands on heroin.
after spending $300 on heroin, he doesn't want to waste his remaining money on a shitty milkshake.
Same reason I complain about the cost of groceries with my wife then later on go and see a hooker for $150.
I went to eat out last night with my friend, he ordered a milkshake that was $9. Absurd.