A house should only cost 4 cars, and a car should cost 1000 sandwiches

@donni

Are the sandwiches the size of 2000 ladybugs?

@donni how many bananas should a pair of socks cost?

A range rover is about $250,000 here and houses are $800,000 to $1,000000 for the most part, so we have that bit down. But $250 for a sandwich doesn’t work. OK.

So let’s live in a cardboard box under a bridge, zero dollars, and steal a car (zero dollars and comes with free sandwiches for four years).

@CrypticMirror @donni a Freddo should be 10p like nature intended.

@s_d_brath @donni minimum flat costs 20+ minimum cars, which cost 2000+ minimal sandwiches. And a minimal flat basically doesn't exist in many localities around the developed world.

@goose @donni never claimed my anecdotal example was true everywhere. Anyone living in a city here in Denmark wouldn't be able to get the same for 1000 sandwiches (even though they get ridiculously expensive in Copenhagen).

@donni Now I want a national currency pegged on sandwiches.

@donni the car to sandwich factor is roughly correct in London

iirc, in the 90s you could still very much sell great sandwiches for around $5, get a decent $5000 car, and buy a simple flat for $50,000 outright (using a USD equivalent).

And that's a pricey sandwich!

@donni Institutional investors should be able to set the price of sandwiches through the interloafing rate.

@donni Car Dealership: [scribbling furiously] Forty dollar burger stand... this is going to be huge

@donni My reality, make my own sandwiches. Car 5 years old £15k. Modest 2½ bedroom semi-detached house £350k in a small, unfashionable town in Central Beds.

@donni Can you measure this in units of a large boulder the size of a small boulder? I mean in a Marxist sense.

@keithpjolley @donni so a car needs to be less than 10,000 minutes of labour.

Which might be hard.

@mcc @donni

There are already cars more expensive than my house, and I feel sandwich prices are being worked on at the moment.

@LovesTha @keithpjolley @donni I can get you a beater car that just passed inspection. Used to belong to an old lady

@donni "What do you mean the car costs 100,000 and the sandwich costs 100?"

@mcc @donni yup, we need some additional constraints, such as a day's work bringing in the equivalent of 12 sandwiches net minimum.

@wannabemystiker @donni And a fair bit of dough too!

@donni back in 1970 new cars were around $3k, houses were ~$17k, and burgers were something under 30 cents. Pretty close?

People like me who are Gen Xers may inherit some of those houses just in time to tear them down, but everyone else later than us are pretty screwed.
I also remember working for an hour at minimum wage in order to afford a fast food meal, and that is probably still the case in most places, unfortunately.

@donni nah, cars should be expensive AF and unobtainable to the masses. More expensive than a home.