Your Big Mac Should Cost 16 Cents. Here’s Why It Doesn’t.

In 1972, a Big Mac cost 65 cents. Today it’s $4.89.
Did burgers get worse? Did McDonald’s forget how to make food efficiently?
Nope. Your money got worse.

This video breaks down how 50+ years of money printing and inflation erased the natural productivity gains that should have made everyday things like burgers cheaper—not more expensive. In a sound money world, that Big Mac could cost just 16 cents today.

This is why we Bitcoin.

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Chapters:
0:00 The shocking price of a Big Mac
1:05 Productivity vs. prices – what gives?
2:45 How inflation hides your lost purchasing power
4:15 1971: the dollar changes forever
5:30 Why a Big Mac should cost $0.16
7:00 The case for sound money (and Bitcoin)

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