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[–] onwardknave@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Gotta have a big lunch after skipping breakfast all the time.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's giving $10 banana vibes

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

This is the new avocado toast slur that boomers are gonna use to describe the younger generations lack of not being able to afford anything.

[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 136 points 4 days ago (12 children)

$70,000 is a lot more than the median individual income. You can probably afford to spend a bit on lunch if you're single and making that amount.

[–] mrmisses@fedinsfw.app 72 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Yeah if he thinks 70k is poor... Woah buddy

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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 44 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I make if I am lucky 35k this year. Fucker if I made double that then I could afford this. But fuck that asshole. Billionaires should never tell us how to live.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 42 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Its $28 because you rich assholes ruin everything

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

i want to jam his face into a waffle iron

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

That's a business plan I can get behind

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I will pay $30,000 for this plan for a 25% stake in his pain.

[–] Burray_Mookchin@lemmy.ml 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

It's insulting that this guy says 70k like it's a low salary (for "kids" as he says). I make a quarter of that. I also know a lot more retired old people who never made close to that in their lifetime than ones who did make that much

And if I did make that much it would still feel insulting because I'm pretty sure most people making 70k can easily afford weekly $28 lunches...

Edit: Just saw that this motherfucker is wearing two expensive watches on the photo... absolutely repulsive person

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Oh no! Another asshole billionaire who is out of touch with reality. Whatever will we do?

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've seen this argument from people before, with avocado toast and Starbucks and everything else, but no one seems to ask why lunch is $28 or blame the people charging $28 for lunch as part of the problem

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 76 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

When he was a junior asshole, that $28 meal would cost $9.

I personally think food inflation has rather exceeded the median rate so it’s probably even less than that; my lived experience says that in 2019 I could get a meal for $15-20 and now it’s $25-30, but the inflation calculator disagrees.

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Yeah how much does lunch cost when you include the cost of a private jet flight to a pedo island?

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 65 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Avocado toast all over again. They do this to every generation.

[–] yyyesss@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

yep, same script - "it's your fault and you should feel ashamed."

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[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 8 points 3 days ago

So we are not talking about the fact, that he wears two watches???

[–] redwattlebird@thelemmy.club 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If I've read all the past posts from people in the USA correctly, it's not lunch that's expensive but the healthcare to stay alive.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This. I'm paying nearly $500 a month for shitty insurance that I literally can't afford the co-pays to actually use. I would literally just go uninsured if my employer weren't reimbursing me for the premium. It's functionally the same thing.

[–] tmyakal@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago

I haven't seen a doctor in over 20 years. I didn't have insurance for most of that time. I've finally had insurance in the last five years or so, but now I can't find a doctor my insurance covers that is taking new patients.

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 80 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Stupid indeed.

Instead of paying $28 for lunch, they should just eat the rich.

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[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (4 children)

If you eat 28 lunch 3 times a day every day it will be $30660 per year. $30660 a year will not make you not poor in most of America, so might as well eat well.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

$30k extra would make a huge difference, though. I get the point you're trying to make, but your example is flawed. People shouldn't have to choose between eating well and not having to work until they die. A more effective way to re-frame this would be "Why does lunch cost $28?"

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago
[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is there a place near where y'all work that lunch is still reasonably priced?

[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

My whole foods near me does take away warm chicken for super cheap. You get a bunch of wings for like 3.50, or a few chicken legs, or a leg and a thigh. It's a decent enough deal I eat it a few times a week.

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[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

We didn’t have lunch today

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 64 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You got two watches on homie

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Wait is $70,000 a year a low amount of money? That's an insane amount of money to be considered poor.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

What does a homeless person make? $100,000 a year?

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[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Just world fallacy

[–] ShankShill@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

At this point, many people should just game the system to get a decent living.

2 bedroom apartments cost what a mortgage can cost for a 4 bedroom new house in some places. Got a very trustworthy friend with good credit? Pay them for "housekeeping" while the only thing they're cleaning out is the beer in the fridge while playing vidyagames. Let them show extra income and get a house. Be roommates. Have other roommates join in. Everyone hoard money while having cheap living in a nice new place.

Is that fraud? Idk but I'm in a nice new house and hoarding money.

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

… you’re sort of just describing a housing co-op.

Except that instead of it being a “particularly trustworthy friend” it’s a legal entity that everyone paying into has voting rights for.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 55 points 4 days ago

We're not poor because of what we spend, and they fucking know it.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I went to Subway last night. You know, the 5-dollar footlong place.

A footlong sub was $12 (not the meal - just the sandwich).

McDonalds is charging 8 dollars for a breakfast muffin.

My rent has gone from 800 to 2000 since Covid.

I have to fill my tank 3 times a weeks, and right now that costs 50 bucks.

On top of that, I have to help my parents out because their pension didn't account for real-world inflation and their extremely comfy retirement turned out not to be nearly enough when the grocery bill doubled.

That 73k I make does less than the 30k I made back in 2016.

[–] Footer1998@crazypeople.online 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

now imagine you still make 30k and also most of your friends cant get jobs to begin with and still with parents in their mid 20s and also half of them are having mental breakdowns and thats the gen z experience

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[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hands up who isn't making anywhere near 70k.

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[–] ravelin@slrpnk.net 34 points 4 days ago

And whose fault is it that lunch costs $28????????

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

What we need to understand about O'Leary is that:

a) He likely has an incredibly tiny penis.

and b) He is absolutely desperate to be seen in the same circle as the likes of Musk, Zuck, Gates, Bezos, etc...

The reality is that his wealth pales incomparison to those guys, at roughly 150 million. To them, he's as much a pauper as you and i are. He's a nobody. And that fucking grinds at him that he's not a part of the cool kids club. It gnaws at his insides that, in reality, the people above him AND the people below him would literally not give a shit if he fucked off back to Canada and died in obscurity.

For all of their evil, the group that O'Leary desperately wants to be seen as equal to will at least leave some sort of Legacy. They'll at least be remembered in the history books, even if just a footnote about their shitty shenanigans.

O'Leary will be forgotten as soon as he's in the ground. Probably sooner.

That's why he's suddenly forcing himself into every fucking news program, and awards shows, and trying to strike deals for massive data centers that no one wants. Because he's a sad and pathetic old man afraid of being forgotten.

also, did I mention he has an incredibly tiny penis?

[–] ShieldsUp@startrek.website 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

His penis has nothing to do with it. Stop obsessing over peoples genitals.

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[–] galacticboy2009@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago

Yeah most people agree $28 for lunch is insanely expensive.

But it doesn't stop quotes like this from being passed around as ragebait.

[–] derAbsender@piefed.social 24 points 4 days ago

Said the Person with two watches

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 8 points 3 days ago

When you can't afford a vacation you may as well splurge on lunch now and then.

[–] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (17 children)

Bruh, I wish I made $70,000/yr. It was what I went to college for after all only for the entire world to change after 4 years, now I can't afford myself and in debt.

Regardless, this is ignoring the fact that inflation has increased the cost of groceries in general, not just lunch. Even though Trump ran on it, apparently inflation never actually happened now that he's in office. The collective amnesia from the right when it benefits them is just infuriating

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