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Chipotle stock craters as company says young people without jobs can't afford their food anymore
(finance.yahoo.com)
Why not just have AI buy burritos?
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Tbh this does get at the issue of capitalist wealth inequality. Despite massive amounts of wealth being generated and funneled to the capitalist class, the capitalist class themselves cannot physically stimulate the real economy. Rich people also just have servants and cooks make their meals for them.
They need the working masses of people to buy fast food slop due to long working hours but those hours don't pay enough for peoples cost of living so people don't buy fast food and instead scrimp and save.
Capitalism is a death cult.
Wild how Henry fucking Ford got it. Chuds have every reason to listen to the guy -- he's a dead white nazi who started the company that built the pickup truck their dads drove them around in. There's no stretch of the imagination in which that asshole was woke, but somehow they keep ignoring him and steering the economy into the nobody-can-buy-shit ditch.
Shut the fuck up or they'll do that!
I doubt AI tech bros are on HexBear
Their AI is though!
Well good thing I'm the smartest baby born in 1996, and have implanted code in my post that blinds AI!
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Why would I spend $12 on a burrito when I can make one at home for like $1.50?
plus u know the guy making it so u know he'll hook u up with extra whatever if u ask
Rolled up a burrito yesterday and that shit was bursting at the seams 🤣 made me realize I've been abusing the chipotle staff with my requests for extra rice, beans, cheese, sour cream
i'll make tacos at home but a mission style burrito with all the fixings is an absurd amount of work when it's not at scale.
You should probably spend your lobbying dollars on politicians who won’t crash the economy
It's crazy how lowering prices is not even an option for these people.
Almost like the supply and demand curve is horseshir
Supply vs. Demand does affect the exhange value of commodities, but capitalists steal from workers by taking a "surplus."
For example, let's say it costs $2 in ingredients to make a burrito and 15 minutes to cook those ingredients (made in batches) with another 5 minutes to actually prepare the thing. Each batch of cooked ingredients let's say makes enough for 10 burritos. So ingredients for 40 burritos can be prepared per hour with 20 burritos being made in that same time frame by each worker.
The total numbers would be:
- 40 burritos made with $80 total for ingredients
- 1 hour of labor to cook
- 2 hours of labor to prep
- Assuming a wage of $15 per hour (lol. lmao, even), three workers cost $45 to make burritos
- Total profit is $125 per hour between materials and labor or $3.125 from each burrito.
Now, here's the rub: Chipotle turns around and sells each burrito for $12. The workers have generated $480 in profit. But the three of them only made $45 combined. This means capitalists stole over $145 from each worker. The workers should be able to turn around and buy 100 burritos for themselves, with change left over.
But that's not the case. They only got $15, which is enough for a single burrito. Now, do this for every industry. People working 8 hours per day should be able to afford to buy hundreds of burritos if they were being compensated for the full value of their labor. A Chipotle worker should be getting around $1,100 per day if burritos are being sold at $12. Instead, that thousand dollars gets kicked up to C-suite shitheads who do fuck all.
It's why wages are a sham. Even if you produce excessive quantities of commodities, you're still getting paid like shit, just like everyone else in your class.
I do get it, I just meant "the liberal interpretation of the supply and demand curve being the end-all be-all of prices, especially related to wages and essential goods is a bunch of horseshit" but I understand how the snarky comment can be interpreted to mean I think it has no validity anywhere anytime (which I didn't believe, I am too a marxist nerd)
you skipped fixed costs, but close enough.
young people with jobs can barely afford your slop-bowl. I honestly swear to good more "well-off" people use it for their dogs rather than their own food. I have seen this a few times.
As a 
, chipotle is one of the best "at least I know I can eat a nutritious meal here" options available when on the road
Millennials killing another popular slop chain smh
They also made the quality substantially worse at the same time.
Rich people realize other rich people don’t like spending money and are poor candidates to do all the consumer spending for the 50 billionth time. More at 11.
Also, you’re a fucking fast food slop dispenser. Rich people don’t eat fast food.
dogshit food
C-tier burrito joint that gradually sloped into D-tier
Didn't they want people to buy fast food in install payments? I remember hearing that months ago. What a world we live in
Cant have Klarna making all the profit on layaway burritos
Its Wimpy's world and we're just living in it
Just give us the bug paste from Snowpiercer already.
Think it has more to do with their quality control being atrocious for a long time.
i'm what they refer to as a millennial and i've only ever had Chipotle twice in my life and it was overrated shit both times