My dad thinks bacon is more expensive because people are asking for higher wages

While out shopping for food for the holidays, my mother went to a local supermarket and was only able to find bacon there at a price of $10/lb or higher. She ultimately ended up buying bacon for closer to $4/lb at a smaller, local butcher - but when she mentioned the price, my father wondered why the price was so high.

I offered that inflation was catching up to prices in grocery stores. He immediately countered that by offering the poorest take that I've heard from him in years regarding the economy:

"Everyone is asking for $15 an hour, which means the price of everything is trickling down to the consumer because companies can't afford these wages."

So... the "Fight for $15" is still ongoing. You'd be hard-pressed to find a chain of supermarkets offering a base wage of $15/hr, but this wage that hasn't gone into effect has caused prices to skyrocket pre-emptively? This is not an argument founded on even a bit of logic.

Also, fuck poor people, I guess? My mother at least commented to my dad that people need better money to survive, and he just scoffed at her. Fuck me too, I guess. I don't think my dad understands that when he makes comments like this, they're about me too.