Prices have inflated so much over the past 10 years that a $20 bill buys as much as $5 did back then.

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    18 hours ago

    Gasoline price is about the same and the price of noodles hasn’t gone up much. But the price of rent and weed has skyrocketed, so…

    🤷

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      17 hours ago

      New plan. Cars that run on noodles!

      Wait, gas prices didn’t go up. That makes no sense…

      Ok. Houses made out of noodles, and we’ll all smoke gasoline!

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      17 hours ago

      and the price of noodles hasn’t gone up much

      From 8.3 cents per package to 33.3 per seems like a jump that qualifies as “much”. And if you get it on scamazon it’s 62.9 cents per.

      This is based off the cost of a 24 pack of Maruchan chicken ramen packets.

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        17 hours ago

        I won’t lie, I haven’t really kept up too much with the price of noodles over the past decades, but I loosely recall them going for somewhere around 18 cents a pack back around 10 years ago.

        Yeah, even those numbers don’t sound wallet happy, but hey, at least we don’t have to worry about pennies anymore, so of course everything rounds up right?

        Fuck. ☹️

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      17 hours ago

      Depends on where you live. I can get an ounce of weed, 28g for you people with better measurement systems, for $22-50 and I have a large variety of strains to choose from.

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        6 hours ago

        If your ounce weighs 28g, you got shorted 2g…

        I guess for that price it doesn’t really matter, but it’s about the principle!

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          1 oz = 28.35 g

          Maybe that 1/3 of a gram is shorting someone, but a single ounce is closer to 28g than to 30g.

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            Oh shit, you’re right. My weed-addled brain got “1/8th = 3.5g” mixed up with “1/4 = 7g” and came up with “7.5×4=30”

            These things do happen…

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        17 hours ago

        Thanks homie, but I had to spend my lunch money on tires and rent. At least beer and cigars are still cheaper than a bottle of water here, so… 🤷

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        6 hours ago

        Ah yes, people no longer going to jail over a flower to be exploited for slave labor and lose all future job prospects is such a scam 🤷‍♀️

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          5 hours ago

          It’s not that its legal; it’s the legal market.

          Everyone buying their weed legally is getting scammed to high-heaven.