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Something something avocado toast

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My parents, 35000 dollars for a two bedroom, 1 bath house 3 acres of land in the middle of BFE back in the 80's
Today, 3 bed, 1 bath house with less than .25 acres, 200k same BFE area.
With inflation something comparable to my parents house in BFE, because it's not changed all that much, should only be 100k.
And the recent minimum wage increase to 13.75 an hour passed by the people is in process of being revoked by Republicans.
And I do get tired of visiting home and taking to people that spout off the 'back in my day' bs.
- BFE?
  
  Acronym for being in the middle of nowhere.
  “Bum Fuck Egypt” or some odd variant of that.
  
  I’ve heard of “Butt Fuck Nowhere.” But never BFE or Egypt.
  
  It’s been around a long time, at least since the ‘80s. You can now add it to your vocabulary.
  
  Or not if noone knows what it means and it makes no sense.
  
  I don’t care, you do you. Nobody’s making you do anything. Plenty of people do know, so not like your lack of knowledge limits anyone else’s usage.
  
  Sounds like "I enjoy being indecipherable, not my problem!"
  
  Everybody I know knows what BFE is. Ask around.
  It does make sense. It's hyperbolically saying it's so far away it might as well be in Egypt.
  
  A lot of us in the Midwest say BFI, with I being Iowa. Think it has more to do with none of us wanting to be in Iowa.
  
  It means out in the middle of nowhere. Most people know what it means, looks like it is just you here who doesn't.
  
  And you know the person that literally asked. And all the people that upvoted him. And if you look the comment saying he's never heard of it has more upvotes than the comment saying it's common. Brilliant analysis that it's only me lol.
- the recent minimum wage increase to 13.75 an hour
  Have higher standards
  
  Seriously. I'm sick of this let's-beg-for-an-itty-bitty-change nonsense. If rent near me is $2000/month, and that's supposed to be 1/3 of my pay, then I should be making $6000 per month ($72k per year!)
  Assuming I worked a full 40 hours every week, with 4 full weeks in a month, that means I'd need to make $1,500 per week, which breaks down to $37.50 per hour (before taxes, as well as before payments for employee benefits, garnishments, etc.)
  I don't live anywhere fancy. This place is an average apartment with too little parking and too many centipedes. Thankfully, I am not paying the entire rent by myself at this time, because I don't make anywhere near $37.50/hour.
  If $13.75 was the wage of somebody who worked a full 40 hours/week, for 4 weeks, they'd only make $2,200. Total. That's it. For the entire month.
  If your fight for a new minimum wage is starting with a number less than 30, you've already lost.
- I see a lot of folks here saying "based on inflation since X, item Y SHOULD only cost Z." I want to point out those inflation numbers the government gives out every year are complete bullshit. Inflation has been WAY more than 30% over the last decade and a half or so (not you but someone above mentioned 30% as the inflation number since the aughts)
  They change their basket of goods to artificially deflate inflation numbers, it is way way way higher than the 2% a year that they claim is the average. Add greed on top and you get the crazy insane prices we see today. For a 2% inflation to really work for everyone and not just the rich assholes then minimum wage needs to increase proportionately. Should force minimum wage up the stated inflation rate once a year. So every year min wage increases by 2% (or more depending on the actual inflation rate).

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