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I thought this was going to be an onion article.
It can be hard to tell the difference sometimes.
I remember reading an “article” stating that:
“People are buying groceries despite their high costs”
Really? No fucking kidding, us poor folks have to eat to survive, just like the rich pricks!
And even worse is when it said: “Grocery chains have reached record profits”
Fuck them all
In my state, they are charging record prices for chicken, at the same time, multiple of the largest suppliers in my state are under investigation for hiring children as young as 11, in dangerous meat processing jobs, and paying them less than minimum wage.
These fucks are actively trying to take wages and workers right back to the early days of the industrial revolution.
All politicians are corrupt, it’s gotten way out of hand
us poor folks have to eat to survive, just like the rich pricks!
Big if true
This post perfectly embodies my complaint about Lemmy.
Multiple unsubstantiated claims that are fully outrageous, and of course the post is filled with outrage against rich people.
But not a single challenge to the claim, and it’s universally upvoted.
This place is fully entrenched in outrage culture.
What’s outrageous about what I said that I read in an article?
Are you part of the 1%?
If not, stop defending them. They don’t give two fucks about you
What’s outrageous about what I said that I read in an article?
Fairly confident he’s calling you a liar and suggesting the things you claim to have seen in an article you never really saw, and are instead offering a claim of your own under the guise of it having been in an article.
Pretty cool way to interact with another human being, if you think about it.
You mean gaslighting. No it’s not a cool way to interact with anyone
Well, gaslighting would be trying to get you to question reality in some way. I don’t think that fits here. I was more implying he was being a dickhead. Because he was.
Ah, your sarcasm flew over my head, sorry!
Nah, it wasn’t very clear in retrospect. That kind of snide comment doesn’t really translate to text very well. My bad!
I agree with others who have a problem with the tone of the headline and the article, but it eventually gets to the point that it’s trying to make, which is that people (not just Gen Z) are spending too much on more expensive brands. What it doesn’t really get to is the fact that this is by design, because those expensive brands can higher psychologists who can design marketing campaigns and packaging designs maximized for gaining attention.
Which box of frosted corn flakes looks more appealing to many people, the one with just the corn flakes, or the one with the fun cartoon tiger telling you that you’ll enjoy them?
Same with the marketing around 'high protein" foods.
Oh good, more avocado toast
I just saw a dozen eggs going for almost $9. I’m not splurging; shit’s just fucking expensive.
I saw potatoes for $2 each. I was like wtf!? That’s supposed to be the cheap food you use as filler. Now we can barely even afford that.
That’s the same for everyone.
If you spend more on “travel, beauty, apparel, and fitness” than you do on groceries, then you’re spending way too fucking much on those things. Those are not things that are expensive or common enough to do all the time.
This is an absolute fucking nothing of an article, that’s thrown generations into the headline as pure clickbait nonsense.
Buy veggies instead of meat.
Ok, I’ll buy expensive vegetables instead of expensive meat.
Veggies went up in price too.
Yupp. It’s by far more healthy, has an incredibly positive ecological impact (especially if sourced locally and organically) and for those who are concerned about ethical issues regarding the life and treatment of animals, this is also a win.
Now I have no money and I’m still hungry.
I like food.
One could even say it is fulfilling to me.The firm asked over 4,000 people, from baby boomers to Gen Zers, about the categories they intend to splurge on this year. Groceries ranked highest for millennials and Gen Zers, outpacing restaurants, bars, travel, beauty and personal care, apparel, and fitness.
Yeah I mean, we can’t afford any of those listed, we just have enough to EAT, crazy right ?
No that cant be true. Every media outlet says workers are making hand over fist right now and the economy has never been better.
I mean, the economy has been doing great if you look at a purely wall-street perspective. The problem is, that doesn’t translate into shit for the average person. Corporate/stock profits != individual financial health.
Objectively the health of the US economy is pretty great now. All the B2B indicators are green, Velocity of Money finally bounced back, etc.
Unfortunately, the health of the economy is divorced from the health of the US laborer… but for those that own business, they are pleased.
(I always thought how funny it would be if they all took the republican advice of “pull up your boot straps and start a small business”. The labor force would evaporate, and it would all be small independent contractors that will take you to small claims if they need to…)
This is really doing my head in. Democrats keep touting how good the economy is, and while the IRA and infrastructure bill were definitely good, the lived experience of your average voter isn’t that they’re doing so much better. Inflation has gone back to normal levels, but that doesn’t mean that prices went back to how they were, it just means prices aren’t going up as much as before.
New sandwich place opened up down my block. Everyone by me was praising it. Went in last weekend, 3 sandwiches and 2 drinks. A bit over $50 dollars. Yeah not going that again. Only two years ago that would have been half the price.
Yep, going out for brunch or whatever else we used to do just a few years ago has become ridiculously expensive. And no, my wage hasn’t gone up enough to compensate for that.
The average economy is going great, but that number is heavily skewed by a small number of big earners. The median economy, what reflects the income of most households, went down.
Funnily enough, median income actually went up quite a bit here in Romania over the last year. Mainly because of successful union action.
I mean, isn’t it normal to spend more on groceries than these other things on a yearly basis?
Like it’s the one thing you pretty consistently need.
With that being said, I find it so annoying how frequently we need to eat.
Like every 6 hours you need a full meal?
How time consuming.
I guess my real problem is how busy I need to be to survive.
Not starving is considered splurging now, got it.
Not eating American corpo-factory food that causes chronic health conditions is splurging, got it.
Nah, the article is actually the contrary. The splurge is on snacks and sodas apparently.
I had to splurge on some hospital bills recently. Such a luxurious life we live, with our not wanting to die of starvation or disease.
Back in my day, we didn’t even eat breakfast! We just smoked a Winston with our instant coffee. “Granppa, if I had cigarette money I could afford food”
Plan to? I think you mean “must”
Planning ahead and budgeting is apparently bad now, as is not planning or budgeting ahead.
Whatever Gen-Z or millennials do is bad, as usual.
I make a decent wage. But for the last few years I’ve just been really uninterested in spending money, because shit is so crazy nowadays that I might lose my job and be unemployed for a while. So I just stopped eating out. Stopped buying the expensive brand. Stopped buying random little things. I’m fine. I just put my attention into other things. I spend half what I used to, and I don’t really notice. My phone? Older, but still supported and works fine. Just lost my desire to have brand new and gained the desire to hoard money.
THATS WHAT YOU GET CAPITALISM! No money for you.
Sounds like me. Maybe once or twice a year I spluge less than 200 bucks on something nice for myself, (last year it was a new knife, and I went halfsies on a new headset with my wife as a bday present). I just literally don’t buy anything.
It’s interesting to see someone’s perspective as you.
I am on a slightly different path in that I have always not splurged on myself because I always wanted to know I was secure, but after the shit show that has been the last 6 years, I now splurge more than ever because I’m not even sure if I’ll be here tomorrow.
Truly, at this point, all that I ever worked hard for in life is so far out of my reach, I just really do not give a fuck anymore.
I hear that not giving a fuck part. I’m really just take it or leave it regarding life.
Cheers. May we outlast this crazy shit, or at the very least, not suffer when it all comes crashing down.
