New York City maintains a bizarre and incredibly accurate economic correlation where the cost of a single slice of plain cheese pizza almost perfectly matches the base fare of a subway ride.

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New York City maintains a bizarre and incredibly accurate economic correlation where the cost of a single slice of plain cheese pizza almost perfectly matches the base fare of a subway ride. First noticed by patent lawyer Eric M. Bram in 1980 and dubbed the Pizza Principle, this unwritten economic law has held remarkably steady for over four decades of inflation and mayoral administrations. Whenever the transit authority decides to hike up the cost of a train ticket, the local pizzerias mysteriously adjust their prices to match within a few months. Economists have debated the underlying causes, citing shared input costs like commercial real estate rent and municipal labor wages. However, the most logical explanation is that the city is actually being secretly governed by a cabal of highly organized pizza rats who are manipulating both the transit infrastructure and the dairy markets to ensure perfect macroeconomic equilibrium