But this is one case where something with the cost being too much, with something being more expensive could be beneficial overall to society when it comes to health, when it comes to people buying more groceries, which is important because groceries have also risen in price, but not at the pace of fast food. Of course, these things happen in cycles
Kwa NateKo
@kwa · 4:53
And the more expensive things are, the more time you have to spend trying to make money or finding workarounds, for example, for childcare or doing things that would otherwise cost you money to make up for that time. So groceries have risen, too. I know I lived in Brooklyn when I was younger, and when I compare my, even my mom says, I compare my parents'life, to the life of our generation
Glenn Mann
@GlennPriceMann · 1:08
If you look at many states where to fight California and New York to raise minimum wage and also because of labor shortages companies have been forced to increase money, increase salary to try to retain and hire new workers. So there's actually like a really kind of complicated sort of you can see almost silver linings when you look at the issue really deep simply at the rising cost of fast food
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Glenn Mann
@GlennPriceMann · 1:08
So people are finding ways to cutting back on certain things because they just have to, they don't have a choice. But I think with fast food, it's just very interesting because in many ways, it's something that we've often said, well, we want people to eat less fast food. We want people to, you know, cook more at home as far as, like, health concerns and things like that
dee felton
@MrDee · 3:55
And people will say things like, oh, if everything was the same, it would just be boring. So what, in a lot of the countries to where you guys mentioned, they all have the same type of house. There may be some small variances, but they particularly have the same type of transportation. Nobody is like way above somebody else. As far as, let's say community or just in general
Glenn Mann
@GlennPriceMann · 0:55
I can't get everything I want or I can get what I want but I need more of it. So it's a form of, I guess like maybe to feel safer. It's maybe some type of self imposed form of scarcity that we just okay, I have more than enough but I still need more just in case or just because I want it. So I think that's part of the bigger dynamic when it comes to this can consumption and consumerism and things like that