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Jay
@OneFineJay
Put away the umbrella; I do not need your shade.
Katılım Mart 2009
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@ChrisRBarron @DigitalFringed1 We’re about the same format. Expect he’s slightly stronger. 🤏🏻
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Continuing the WTF are people doing to feed themselves and their families discourse, I have no idea how this woman could spend $90 to make cheeseburgers at home. It costs less per person the more people you feed. Just bizarre commentary.
Mostly she just sounds burnt out. This would take me 30 min and $30 (less with sales).
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Wait until the Euros start talking about how the $5 bread here isn’t real bread; that it’s cake. Imagine these discourses converging.
Tet@Neko_Tet
You think a loaf of bread being $5 is normal?
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“Time opportunity,” unless you’re making money when you’re not actively working this is the least convincing argument in this discourse
naz@leveragedchimp
because its not that much more expensive to eat out if you account for time opportunity. £5 at a local shop v £3 and an hour of cooking/cleaning.
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@LibertyJen Hey hey I rent out of choice and I still make my lunch even while working from home; I don’t doordash that ish
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The divide on X today:
Everyone who owns a home:
“There’s nothing wrong with making your own lunch, I brown bag all the time and rarely eat out.”
Renters, criers, basement dwellers, people upset they can’t possibly “ever” buy a home:
“I HAVE to spend $28 every day at Chipotle, why do you want me to STARVE?”
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@ryancduff I don’t have to transport my art pieces in the back of the truck. That’s great.
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@doctorcalf @DigitalFringed1 Gonna buy it for the thirst traps, thanks for the review
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Finally went through @DigitalFringed1 recipe book. It’s actually really good. It’s a bunch of stuff I would and will make. I’m kinda picky with that shit too. It’s not gross bland 90s bodybuilder shit.
Also this lunatic included 2 pictures of himself in it + some condiments and foods he hates. It’s a ton of recipes though and I’m glad I got it.
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And Todd’s is a GREAT argument. Osterias have existed in the Roman Empire. Laborers went there to eat cheap fuel. The people running them stayed poor, but lived enough to keep going, and they knew their lot in life. The issue in America is we want everyone to dream big but the big dreamers forgot about the costs of doing so. Additionally, economic factors are working against dreaming big as well.
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@OneFineJay That’s at least a unique argument. Most of what I’ve seen is more like the guy who complained that having to brown bag it means they’ll be eating unhealthy slop… as compared to the $29 chipotle burrito. 🙄
My eldest is 19 and it’s hard out there so I get it.
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I can appreciate the spirit of this thread but know that the cheap prepared meals that undergird urban cultures are powered by a food prep underclass that is even lower in the economic hierarchy as the tradesmen they feed. There is dignity in an honest day’s work but at the end of the day running a kabob cart or cafeteria for urban workers of all stripes is a tough business, and most of the people who work in food service today complaining about how the pay is too low won’t last a day in the kitchens of yore.
As always, the discourse distills to how a group of people feel aggrieved because they can’t get ahead despite their jobs when certain jobs *have built-in ceilings* and at some point you have to either make peace with your station in life or jump ship to climb higher until you hit that ceiling, and that’s not even factoring the lifestyle *floor* you set for yourself.
Todd of Mischief@AndToddsaid
Prepared food isn’t a luxury. It’s a civic technology. Urban cultures have always run on cheap prepared meals the way they run on paved roads and standard measures. From Roman thermopolia to NYC lunch counters, feeding the daytime workforce has always been core infrastructure.
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@johnmccumber Thank you! I’m paying a truck company for all this stated haul. In my car are my personal valuables, clothes for a week, and a shit ton of Li-Ion powered equipment that they won’t transport. 😅
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@suburbs_enjoyer @Kyle_Beckley Imagine eating something other than sandwiches that you can make. You can do it!
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@OneFineJay @Kyle_Beckley Kind of ironic coming from the eat sandwich crowd
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Maybe you might not be able budget your way to wealth. His point was, it is easy to spend your way into poverty. It is easy to spend your way out of attainable goals
This is a reality no matter your income level
🌽🌽 Erica, The White Trash Socialist 🌽🌽™️@herosnvrdie69
If my whole family ate sandwiches for every meal 3 times a day only our grocery bill would still be 800 dollars a month. To follow budgeting guidelines, I would need to make 64,000 dollars a year…to afford to only eat sandwiches. You can’t budget your way out of poverty.
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@Bombshell_Squad The last ten boxes are mismash of stuff but the rest are well organized into categories
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@RobotEatingRobo @JosephKahn Money IS time; imagine how much more time he needs to work to offset the profligate spending on himself that takes away from his family?
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After being a dad, I feel guilty if I spend too much on myself on anything. It feels like I'm taking away from my family. Every dollar should be for them. This is how dad clothes exist. I try to keep my lunch under $20. I can get grocery sushi for $12. I can kill at Panda Express for $15. Just grilled a Costco steak for dinner I split in half ($8). It doesn't matter how much money I make, the primal level of guilt I feel spending money on myself turns me monastic. However, I love spending money on the family. The joy of providing for them is the only reason I make money. That is the joy of being a man: how little can you spend on yourself and how much can you give your family?
Mikli@CryptoMikli
Kevin O’Leary says Gen Z is financially cooked when people making $70K a year are spending $28 on lunch
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Labor is always 30% of the costs in the napkin math in the West. In an Asian city the equivalent of a hotdog cart or noodle stand, the labor is “free” because it’s a family op and they just enjoy the pass through profit. They charge according to ingredient costs and rent and what the market will choose to pay.
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@OneFineJay @akarlin I was going to give you a bit of crap for overstating labor costs, but it turns out you are right. It's 25-35% of operational costs and one of the few places owners can save money.
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This guy is getting rinsed for this comment, but this American signaling against prepared food is really dumb and inefficient. Most people do not sew their own clothes or carve their own furniture, it's all done by specialists, why should food preparation be a special exception?
Sean Padraig McCarthy@SeanMcCarthyCom
Lunch just costs $28 now. Are they not supposed to eat?
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@vermontaigne These boxes look like A LOT of stuff but I have been in a procurement crunch for years at this point. I enjoy my existing stuff to death. I like options. And when I do tire of them I give them to my family back in the PI.
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@OneFineJay Well done. I was told I was going to die of my cancer soon and gave away my stuff. Then I was told the chemo was working. I don't regret giving away my stuff. That's one less thing someone has to do someday. The stuff? People are enjoying it, and I don't miss it.
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@Kyle_Beckley So you save a bunch of money to do what exactly? Spend 40k on a down payment to live in an “up and coming” neighborhood. You’ll probably still need to bid over asking too
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