For example, to the people of Africa, where you can feed a child for a year on $25 according to certain charities, Americans chowing down on $2 Burger King Whoppers must seem like utter decadence to them.
Well some people on this thread might find it hard to believe, but in New York City, $175 is not a big deal for many people living there.
Let's say that you are an executive in Manhattan who makes about $875,000 a year. Well, to you, spending $175 on a hamburger for lunch is the exact same as a construction worker making $40,000 spending $8 for a hamburger lunch at Applebees.
Divide $175 into $875,000 and that represents .02% of that executives income. Divide $8 into the $40,000 income of the contruction worker and you get the exact same .02% ratio.
Therefore, the executive is no more decadent than the construction worker. And if Donald Trump or Warren Buffet go in for that $175 hamburger than they are probably slumming.
So in conclusion, I think it's a good thing that there are people out there who can easily afford $175 for a hamburger.
Nonetheless, putting gold on a hamburger does strike my New England-influenced sensibilities as excessive. Kobe beef, aged Gruyere, and truffles I can see, but gold?
Conservatives are an inherently frugal bunch. I don’t see an issue with the price as much as the value.
Speaking strictly for myself, if I’m paying that much for a burger, it better be delivered hot & tasty by a naked cowgirl at the snap of a finger.