The rise of everything.

Photo by rc.xyz NFT gallery / UnsplashI was cleaning up my Google Photos and saw a photo I took on November 29, 2014 in the middle of Overland Park, Kansas. It was a receipt from Smashburger that had a Classic Smash ($4.99) and a Classic Big Smash ($5.39) and it was a nice refresher to remember the prices of the past.Random Smashburger cropped receipt from 2014The Tampa location a decade later now has that Classic ($7.79) and Big ($10.29), which doesn't really reflect the past of sizes (small, regular, big) but either way if we lock in on the classic - prices keep going up. Gone are the days of getting a burger, fries and drink for under $10. I really examined the price of a regular single McDonalds hamburger from 1963 to 2020 in a different blog post, so I'll withhold another hamburger comparison this time.So then I got curious what else really had an increase and I found my receipt from Netflix from 2011.2011 vs 2026 Netflix paymentsI paid $7.99/month and now I am paying…