Internet Debates Things That Have Gotten More Expensive and Worse in Quality
Have you caught yourself looking at the prices in a grocery store, booking flights or pulling up to a fast food restaurant drive-thru recently, wondering, "When did everything get so expensive?"
This week, users online started to think about some of the goods and services that have increased in price while seemingly decreasing in quality—and there's quite a lot.
After one person on Reddit posed the question, "What has simultaneously got worse and more expensive?" the number of answers from people in the comments seemed to beg an even better question: "What hasn't?"
Among some of the specific things internet users named, fast food came up a lot, as did food purchases in general.
Restaurants such as McDonald's, Burger King and Subway were all named as used-to-be cheap places that have since upped their prices, while the food quantities just keep getting smaller.
One person even suggested that Subway's famous Five Dollar Foot-Long sub should be renamed the "Thirteen Dollar Foot-Long" at this point.
"You guys remember the dollar menu?" another user wrote.
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"Almost all grocery store food," someone else suggested, while another person agreed, "That's what I was going to post. It's pretty depressing to get my groceries for the week at 150% the price for what they used to be."
"Tipping. For anything," someone else mentioned, noting that a lot of fast food and casual restaurants will now ask for tips, despite not providing any delivery or table service.
"I’m never tipping for over the counter service. They can turn that iPad right back around," one user lamented.
"Cable television," another person provided, noting that there are "more commercials," "nonsense" channels, and a "ridiculous monthly bill"—which could explain why so many people are ditching their cable providers altogether.
Other users named some more large-scale things, including college education, insurance and health care.
"Rent," someone else chimed in. "The price keeps climbing, the wages are stagnated, and the houses keep getting shittier."
"Being alive," a rather despondent user added.
"Everything. The answer is Everything," someone else summed it all up succinctly.
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