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54% of young Americans are splurging on luxuries such as groceries and need to learn how to cut back of frivolous expenses
But also, please do not stop buying frivolous items or else the entire economy will collapse.
Millennials are killing the being alive industry
One meal a day should be enough for everybody.
It’s not being broke, it’s intermittent fasting!
You joke but I’m already only eating 2 meals in a day
you and 39% of Americans apparently https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alarming-39-americans-skipped-meals-120000123.html
It’s only their biggest issue because they’ve all already had to move back in with their parents.
My favorite thing about this dystopian nightmare we all exist in is that during the height of the pandemic, food costs basically tripled over night FOR NO GOD DAMN REASON.
It’s groceries sweetheart, how much could it cost a week, $350?
Communism is when no foo-
no it’s not. Inflation is down actuallyThank goodness the rate at which calories get more expensive has gone down. Surely a reduction in how fast things get expensive means that we can now afford them despite their prices not getting lower.
I have an incredible deal on rent in NYC and shop very conservatively for food. Why do I have to pay almost 30K a year, not counting any other living expenses, to just eat the bare minimum food and sleep in the bare minimum accommodations? If you gave this info to somebody living in the Soviet Union they wouldn’t even believe you because it sounds like such unbelievable bullshit that it surely would have to be propaganda.
ummm i am very surprised the majority are not saying HOUSING COSTS.
But that’s probably because a lot of people are just having to keep living at home with their parents forever. which i guess leaves food costs…
Historically, food insecurity has been the revolutionary straw that breaks regimes’ backs, even in the most repressive regimes. Wall Street is playing with fire here. We all know about the “peace, land, and bread” slogan, and you can be damn sure that it was the “bread” part that most caught the attention of the peasants.
As Lenin put it, every society is three meals away from chaos.
No peace, no land and soon no bread
That’s the thing about Rome’s bread and circuses - they worked for like a thousand years.
the thing that everyone absolutely must have to live on a daily basis is a huge concern for those people now that the price of it is increasing rapidly?
news at 11
It does seem like every time I go to the grocery store these days I’m dropping $60-70 on not very fancy things
I did a double take at the store this week when I realized bell peppers were three goddamn dollars each. Not even organic or at an upscale grocery store or anything, just regular old peppers that I’m pretty sure I was buying for less than half that less than two years ago
I swear to god asparagus didn’t feel like an “oof…” purchase like 5 years ago.
asparagus has always been a luxury item. you must be the ELITE!
I would have thought housing would have been the highest.
More than half of people under 30 live with their parents now.
And I’m not saying that’s necessary a bad thing, that’s a norm in most parts of the world. But we aren’t really socialized that way. People are living at home with parents who harangue them daily about not getting a good enough job and who aren’t planning on leaving their home to their children.
My dad would constantly call me “loser” and other deprecating shit when I was still living with him and my mom in my early 20s. Even when i was making pretty good dough (but still not enough to live on my own) and was paying them a few hundred dollars a month, buying all my own food and paying 100% of the Internet bill.
I don’t miss that at all. I feel for people who have no choice but to be in that predicament.
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No shit! Between food and rent I can barely make it.
Literally every other day Im spending 40-50 dollars at the grocery store on bullshit. I mean like 18 of that is beer but
I mean, yeah. I only ever “buy” rent, utilities, and groceries. The other shit goes up once a year, but food goes up every week. As a science man, that’s bad.
It’s becoming more and more real to me that just about everyone is one bad paycheck away from poverty. It sucks so much.
