The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas

Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by chiphammertime on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:49PM (#32187907)

I know it's unfair of me, but I'm imagining a default-dead early startup guy saying this while drinking the weird mushroom water, so thank you for that

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by thebooktocome on Friday July 22, 2022 @12:01AM (#32188373)

I probably give off that vibe. But nah, I’m just a jaded, cynical survivor of the Rust Belt imploding twenty years ago, causing similar destruction to our mom n’ pops. From which we also never really recovered.

Anyway, more importantly, what weird mushroom water? Is it any good?

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by ev1 on Friday July 22, 2022 @12:49AM (#32188638)

kombucha and it is very much an acquired taste IMO

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by dragonwriter on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:00AM (#32188687)

How is fermented tea “mushroom water”?

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by ev1 on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:07AM (#32188730)

Old coworkers used to call the growth mushroom as slang for some reason, at least that was the first thing that came to mind.

The other one is a ludicrously overpriced relatively recent beverage called mud water (caffeinated mushroom water?)

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by Iwan-Zotow on Friday July 22, 2022 @12:31PM (#32193907)

In Russian, it is called grib, aka mushroom

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by vkou on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:09AM (#32188741)

Some call the mother colony a 'mushroom'.

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by richbell on Friday July 22, 2022 @11:29AM (#32193029)

I've never heard Kombucha referred to as mushroom water. I assumed they meant Chaga.

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by LBJsPNS on Friday July 22, 2022 @10:05AM (#32191965)

Mildew. It tastes like mildew.

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by rco8786 on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:17PM (#32187705)

Obviously. The article is about the effect of that happening on the community.

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by gumby on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:12PM (#32187676)

What if the economic change is transient? There are only two regular restaurants in town. The impact is larger than just the owner.

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by kungfufrog on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:16PM (#32187703)

I actually found it a really sad article to read. I feel like living in a major city, earning software development $$$'s, it can be real easy to disconnect from the producer side of the economy. Increasingly large companies are creating an environment that's conducive to their profits and survival at the expense of smaller producers who care more about the process and quality of what they produce.

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by thebooktocome on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:18PM (#32187716)

These increased food and fuel costs are largely not transient.

The town itself might very well not be viable anymore. I’ve seen this happen in my own neck of the woods. It’s sad, but the death of small towns like this is just a reality of the economic policy we’ve chosen to pursue here.

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by sokoloff on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:23PM (#32187743)

I'd be fairly surprised if we don't see gas under $3/gal sometime in the next decade. There's a reason several key economic indicators exclude food and energy (due to the much higher volatility of these categories).

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by thebooktocome on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:28PM (#32187769)

Let’s see, they opened in 2001.

So their original business model assumed gas would be around 1.40/gal (1.90 inflation adjusted).

When do you think gas will fall that low again?

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by sokoloff on Friday July 22, 2022 @08:49AM (#32191349)

You can’t reasonably predict a specific future price-at-time of a volatile commodity (that’s the whole point of excluding its transient excursions).

Dev 2008, Feb 2016, spring 2020 were all times with retracements back near the 2001 levels (adjusted for currency devaluation/inflation).

I expect we’ll see them again in my lifetime, but you can’t reliably predict exactly when. (If you could, you could retire quite quickly via commodity speculation.)

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by tylermac1 on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:26PM (#32187756)

this is just a reality of the economic policy we’ve chosen to pursue here.

Now who is "we" in this scenario?

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by wins32767 on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:29PM (#32187779)

American citizens collectively.

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by spywaregorilla on Friday July 22, 2022 @08:53AM (#32191379)

But also the general development of the world

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by spywaregorilla on Friday July 22, 2022 @08:52AM (#32191375)

So you're just locked into a slowly decaying town by social norms and guilt? Sounds like the well intentioned by arguably antagonistic group of adults in a coming of age young adult movie. The decline of rural towns has been a long term thing.

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by renewiltord on Friday July 22, 2022 @02:08AM (#32189049)

Just the same thing as people say on HN for other things. Your business model is not my problem.

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Re:The true costs of inflation in small-town Texas by quickthrower2 on Friday July 22, 2022 @12:48AM (#32188633)

No you pivot! You have the shop, the loyalty, the community. What I imagine small towns need is convenience. If I can buy some groceries while at the BBQ house that is handy. Maybe sell phone chargers too and watnot. Change the menu so the items are affordable, large but the item cost is lower.

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