Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10% • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by bpt3 » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 4:57 PM UTC

jgon wrote: post #302

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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 th…

Buy a house below the median cost if you want to live that specific lifestyle.

And don't rely on trashy websites for your snarky, invalid arguments: https://www.bls.gov/regions/mountain-plains/summary/blssumma...

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

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Post by senordevnyc » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 5:13 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #315

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UberEats prices are often inflated vs. in-restaurant. As many others have pointed out, $68 makes no sense.

I checked on the Popeyes website in my area - $50 with tax for three three-piece combos. $68 is entirely believable for expensive areas; I'm in the rust belt.

$48.96 for me, with tax. And I live in Manhattan.

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

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Post by senordevnyc » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 5:14 PM UTC

bityard wrote: post #339

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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.

The McDonald's drive through.

They’re testing it at a whopping five stores.

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

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Post by ceejayoz » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 5:28 PM UTC

senordevnyc wrote: post #352

ceejayoz wrote: post #315

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I checked on the Popeyes website in my area - $50 with tax for three three-piece combos. $68 is entirely believable for expensive areas; I'm in the rust belt.

$48.96 for me, with tax. And I live in Manhattan.

Manhattan's an outlier in many things. I'd expect, for example, foot traffic to be much larger at such a location.

(See, for example, the famous $1 pizza slice that lasted a lot longer there than elsewhere.)

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

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Post by sjsdaiuasgdia » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 6:01 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #354

senordevnyc wrote: post #352

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$48.96 for me, with tax. And I live in Manhattan.

Manhattan's an outlier in many things. I'd expect, for example, foot traffic to be much larger at such a location. (See, for example, the famous $1 pizza slice that lasted a lot longer there than elsewhere.)

Why are you so determined to find a way to make an obvious exaggeration partially true?

Your local example failed, so you hand-waved at expensive areas. Someone points out that it's also false in an expensive area, and you say "no not that expensive area it doesn't count".

Why do you feel the need to defend the honor of the "Costs $68 to feed 3 at Popeye's" exaggeration?

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Post by sokoloff » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 6:55 PM UTC

pocksuppet wrote: post #340

sokoloff wrote: post #273

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> Annualized inflation this year (in the USA) is 10% Source? I think that's about 2-2.5x the figure that everyone else is using.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489655

Your "source" is an editorializing HN submitter who took a one-month increase in prices while the military action with Iran and subsequent oil price shock and multiplied by 12.

The BLS (and any economist) knows better than to do that, so you cited the online equivalent of "a dude wearing sunglasses on the back of his hat being interviewed in his pickup truck..."

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Post by namblooc » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 7:23 PM UTC

ifyoubuildit wrote: post #187

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A capitalist society needs inflation in order to produce a desirable outcome. It is a driver of consumption, as opposed to people and organizations hoarding their money in a deflationary environment, as well as investments, because inflation leads to the devaluation of loans over time.

This is the gospel that is taught. It seems to help people tolerate the fruits of their labor being quietly separated from them over time. Just another tax, except the people have even less of a say in this one.

Can you provide counter arguments to mine, though? It does not reduce wealth if dealt with correctly as an individual. It is meant to incentivize investments rather than hoarding, i.e., doing nothing with your money, as I explained.

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

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Post by senordevnyc » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 11:34 PM UTC

sjsdaiuasgdia wrote: post #355

ceejayoz wrote: post #354

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Manhattan's an outlier in many things. I'd expect, for example, foot traffic to be much larger at such a location. (See, for example, the famous $1 pizza slice that lasted a lot longer there than elsewhere.)

Why are you so determined to find a way to make an obvious exaggeration partially true? Your local example failed, so you hand-waved at expensive areas. Someone points out that it's also false in an expensive area, and you say "no not that expensive area it doesn't count". Why do you feel the need to defend the honor of the "Costs $68 to feed 3 at Popeye's" exaggeration?

Additionally, there are loads of comments of people all over the country price checking this $68 claim in their area. Bizarre to just keep hammering how it must be true under some yet-to-be-revealed circumstances.

It’s obviously just bullshit.

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Post by mempko » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 11:43 PM UTC

fhn wrote: post #260

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People forget that prices don't rise automatically. Businesses decide to raise prices. There isn't some magical force called inflation cuasing prices to go up. It's human decision-making all the way down.

Have you ever run a business?

Have you ever run a business? I have and still do. I make the pricing decisions, nobody makes them for me. Have to factor in a lot and repricing is always a hard choice in either direction. It's never automatic or some mystical force.

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Post by senordevnyc » Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 11:43 PM UTC

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Sure, it’s not impossible to reach. But I think you’ve demonstrated that you need to work to reach it. Particularly in a family context; I don’t eat at Popeye’s but even I know that the whole point of the family menu is that it’s meant to be economical for family meals.

Ordering a main, a side, and a drink isn't really "working to reach it". Your original post was insinuating that the OP or their friend lied about the cost and I was just demonstrating that it's quite plausible to reach it.

First, you ordered them a la carte, because using the combo price (as almost any actual buyer would do) would undermine your point.

And then you ordered an amount of calories greater than the recommended amount for an adult for the entire day. Sure, some people eat that, but is that remotely a useful metric to answer the question of what it costs the typical family of three to eat at Popeye’s? No.