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Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by tenacious_tuna »

jancsika wrote: post #279
epsteingpt wrote: post #25

I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents (3 yen - source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japanese-snack-company-apolog... ) The country for better or worse seems to be frozen in time - salaries have not caught up with the heady levels of SV (or even Europe) but neither have rents or prices for common go…

> I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. Just checked online. 8pc family meal of spicy white meat with large mash potatoes and gravy, one sweet tea, one purple lemonade, one chilled premium mango lemonade = $41.05 @ 1501 NW 20th St, Miami, FL 33142 Bring-your-own-liquids = $30.38 Either ordering at the counter is criminally expensive, or you were listening to someone…

My partner and I spent ~$70 CAD at popeyes the other day for two adults. I got a sandwich + fries + slaw, they got tenders, we both got fountain drinks.

that's about $50 USD.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by jgon »

bpt3 wrote: post #283
jgon wrote: post #278

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That's actually a really great suggestion. It would be great if you could throw together a list of these many, many places and post it here, so we could think about what sort of moves we could make. Thanks in advance!

Large portions of the rust belt, midwest, and deep south for starters. There are many, many lists of the most affordable cities in the US. I see Buffalo, Dayton, and Wichita on them regularly as specific examples.

Sweet thanks, I guess I never really thought about moving to the Rust Belt and then taking part in its thriving economy to get the sort of job that would allow me to support a family of 5 and own a house on a single income. I would guess at this point you'd probably try and say something about remote work and arbitraging high west coast tech salaries against low cost-of-living, but really that just gets us back to the other poster's point about this stuff not being obtainable anymore. Certainly, to take just a quick example, not in one of the cities you listed, Wichita, with a median individual income (as specified by the other poster) of between $49k and $35k for men and women, and a median house sale price of $243k (up 4.3% over the last year!), giving you an affordability ratio of roughly 5-7x. Chapman university labels that sort of ratio as "Severly Unaffordable".

Whoops! Guess it isn't quite as easy as your smug comment made it out to be...

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/wichita-ks -> link for median single income data in Wichita

https://www.redfin.com/city/19878/KS/Wichita/housing-market -> link for median house sale price

https://www.chapman.edu/communication/_files/Demographia-Int... -> Link to Chapman study, income affordability ratio labeling is on page 6 of the study.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by oogali »

tenacious_tuna wrote: post #301
jancsika wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. Just checked online. 8pc family meal of spicy white meat with large mash potatoes and gravy, one sweet tea, one purple lemonade, one chilled premium mango lemonade = $41.05 @ 1501 NW 20th St, Miami, FL 33142 Bring-your-own-liquids = $30.38 Either ordering at the counter is criminally expensive, or you were listening to someone…

My partner and I spent ~$70 CAD at popeyes the other day for two adults. I got a sandwich + fries + slaw, they got tenders, we both got fountain drinks. that's about $50 USD.

The chicken sandwich large combo at Popeyes consists of the sandwich, 2 sides (fries, slaw), and a fountain drink — $14.99.

The 5pc chicken tenders regular combo (tenders, fries, biscuit, fountain drink) is $15.99.

Where did the other ~$20 USD come from?

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by Thraway198 »

hootz wrote: post #8
leetrout wrote: post #3

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Off topic: what are you enjoying lately? Most of the games I have bought work on switch 1 but the screen and controls on the switch 2 are better. I regret buying caravan sandwitch because it's so hard to see with my aging eyes but it is nice to play it anywhere. Always curious to hear what others enjoy about it to help me have less regret in my $600 investment in Mario kart

DK Bananza is wonderful, a masterpiece. Pokémon Pokopia is also really fun as a recurring game you come back to every day or every couple of days to relax and build your village. I'm also enjoying Switch 1 games on it. Pokémon Violet, for example, lagged hard on Switch 1 but runs great on Switch 2.

DK Bonanza is if someone vomited neon all over a WOW clone

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by oogali »

dymk wrote: post #284
jancsika wrote: post #279

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> I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. Just checked online. 8pc family meal of spicy white meat with large mash potatoes and gravy, one sweet tea, one purple lemonade, one chilled premium mango lemonade = $41.05 @ 1501 NW 20th St, Miami, FL 33142 Bring-your-own-liquids = $30.38 Either ordering at the counter is criminally expensive, or you were listening to someone…

That 8pc 'family meal' feeds 2 people. The sweet teas don't count as food - they may as well be dumped down the sink. Feeding a family of four would need 2 of those 8 piece meals, so $60.

Looking at the Popeyes menu, the 8pc family meal is $32.99 and feeds 3-4 people (3218-3738 calories)

If that’s not enough, you order the larger portion, not double your quantity.

12pc family meal: $42.99 for 4-6 people (4992-6032 calories)

16pc family meal: $52.99 for 6-8 people (6766-8326 calories)

Have you folks seen a Popeyes family meal? They’re not tiny… eating that many calories in one sitting is not the best idea.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by skybrian »

__turbobrew__ wrote: post #232
Sateeshm wrote: post #131

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As a kid, I always wondered why prices HAVE to keep going up. Seemed like a vicious cycle.

Inflation makes servicing debt cheaper which incentivizes getting loans to build things. It also leads to those who have little bargaining power to become underpaid as they cannot negotiate higher salaries as inflation squeezes them.

Inflation usually results in the central bank raising interest rates and thereby discouraging new loans for new projects, to try to prevent further inflation.

Maybe you could win if you’re leveraged using fixed-rate, long-term loans and you’re also confident that you can sell something at a higher price. But that’s a rather specific financial maneuver.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by senordevnyc »

thewebguyd wrote: post #247
ryukafalz wrote: post #244

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Where is this happening? I think I would walk out and never come back if I walked into a fast food place and couldn't order until I downloaded an app.

You aren't required to but you will pay substantially more by not using the app and creating an account. They offer "exclusive" deals that usually amounts to roughly ~20% off menu price, while they raised all their base prices that much or more so you are subjected to data harvesting in order to pay the normal pirces.

I order fast food all the time and I'm always scoping for deals, rewards, etc. in the apps, and it's nowhere near 20% off on average.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by downrightmike »

Sateeshm wrote: post #131
epsteingpt wrote: post #25

I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents (3 yen - source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japanese-snack-company-apolog... ) The country for better or worse seems to be frozen in time - salaries have not caught up with the heady levels of SV (or even Europe) but neither have rents or prices for common go…

As a kid, I always wondered why prices HAVE to keep going up. Seemed like a vicious cycle.

Interest rates create more money, inflation makes more money worth less.

Spain was pretty poor in the 1600's inspite of new world gold and silver, because inflation made everything more expensive as supply of goods wasn't really increased, but money supply was.

in 2020, USA increased money supply by 20% of their all time supply. So inflation has to devalue the currency by at least that much to keep it balanced. Which is why they are distracting us with all the shit they are doing. and they are ignoring the real issue.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by senordevnyc »

bityard wrote: post #203
chasd00 wrote: post #171

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> I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. That’s $22 per person. Would like to see what they ordered. Not saying I don’t believe it but that’s pretty high. My family of 4 can eat chilfila for that and chikfila is kind of pricey for fast food where Popeyes is pretty much trash.

No, that's about right in my (very limited) recent experience. It's _very_ easy to spend as much at a fast food restaurant these days as you would at a sit-down restaurant, especially if you don't do one of their combo meals, or add one or two extra items to your order The crazy high prices and general unhealthiness aside, my main beef (if you'll pardon the pun) with fast food places is that more and more of them are…

What? Where are you going? What does "taking orders via AI" even mean? I have never once been in a fast food restaurant anywhere in the US that didn't have counter service, self-serve ordering kiosks, or both.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by bamboozled »

smoovb wrote: post #215

The CEO then went on to explain, “We raised base salaries in Japan by 10 percent in April 2023,” adding, “Since then, we have continued to review our compensation system to ensure that remuneration aligns with employees’ demonstrated capabilities, and in April 2026 we implemented further salary increases, including for starting pay.” If their last raise was 3-4 years ago, this is a simple inflation adjustment, amazin…

People are already stupidly underpaid in Japan too so yeah, I agree.
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