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Late-stage capitalism ready to collapse on itself. When your production lines are perfectly efficient, no one make money but the top.
Then at some point, consumption will come to a halt. Robots will produce goods that nearly no one can afford, small service business will be bankrupted. And government will be powerless as billionaires don't pay taxes but they're the last class on Earth actually making money.
This is just an early sign. The whole system is ready to crash.
When a proper sandwich is 2,50 I don't mind paying at a restaurant. But when I have to pay 12,50 for a slice of bread with a single piece of cheese and some lettuce on it, I prefer to bring my own, thank you.
Don't forget the tip, otherwise the server will starve
I live in a country where hospitality staff makes fair wages. Although it could be better. But at least the responsibility for them making enough money isn't put on customers but on the employers, as it should be.
At the place I worked at for a while we didn't do tips. There was no system for it. If people insisted on giving a cash tip, we (the employees) would use the money to buy food for homeless people. Everyone was happy with that.
Stop eating avocado toast!
Wait, not like that.
The current kleptocrats in charge are murdering the global economy and the neoliberals before them fucked it.
The headline is clearly framed to put the blame on something else, even in a joking manner. That makes the journalist or editor a collaborator.
The article itself is written in that disgusting cutesy style: Your New Lunch Habit Is Hurting the Economy - WSJ https://archive.ph/iwYHZ
I'd sure like to see a list of all those industries frugal people are "killing".
It's insane to write about "spending habits" when people have trouble just getting by.
Any article about such topics should blame those who are really responsible: the increasing gap between the rich and the middle class/poor, as well as the politicians who push this even further.
Reporters who blame the people who rely on debt just to get by are lacking empathy and decency.
When a meal that doesn't even fill your stomach starts at $20 and there's a mandatory minimum tip of 30% at the kiosk it's not awfully enticing. After tax and a drink it's now $30 for something you could have just made yourself in most circumstances for $5.
As an antagonist to full time RTO, I delight in bringing my own lunch and eating it in the food court.
What does this have to do with age? It's class war.
The piss poor US income distribution is a massive factor.
This is also happening with reproduction
"Don't reproduce if you can't afford it"
But also
"Why are fertility rates falling into the abyss?"
I mean why are birth rates always the highest in the poorest regions? Makes you think that money likely has little to do with reproductive rates, and more along the lines of women gaining education and having access to family planning methods.
Turns out it was the men that wanted the children the whole time. Which definitely tracks with my experience. Men want women to sacrifice for them.
Poorer regions usually are more conservative too.
Which means that women are more likely to stay at home taking care of the kids. And if they do work, they do so part time. Which still leaves time to take care of the kids.
The regions with low birthrates usually have women working full time. And full time means 8h+.
I bet people would be having more kids if people that can work from home, worked from home. And if full time meant 6h instead of 8h+.
That way, instead of working husband + stay at home mom, we could have commuting parent and WFH parent.
With the added benefit of commuting parent having a shorter commute since there would be a lot less people commuting.
Nordic countries have lower overall working hours, and don't see increased birthrates. And make higher salaries. It's almost like when women become educated and have access to family planning methods, they don't have as many children.
A lot of what people miss is the importance of safety and security. People don't have kids when they reach a certain income level. They have kids when they are reasonably confident they can give their children a decent living.
A subsistence farmer in Subsaharan Africa can have a much more secure existence than the working poor of countries like the US. People are poor, but they live on land they own or at least have assured access to through shared community rights. They may not have much money, but they have security. They can have kids, and at the very least, the kids can always take over the farm from their parents. The parents probably want the kids to go get an education and be more successful than themselves, but at the very least, the kids will have no worse a life than the parents do.
Compare that to developed countries. You pay monthly for rent that can skyrocket at any time, paid for with a job that can disappear at any time. And I would say raising kids in a rural African village is probably feels a lot more reasonable than trying to raise kids in a studio apartment built in a car-dependent American suburb.
Might be less that the subsistence farmer is so secure and more that they need the kids as a retirement plan. Most of the countries with falling birthrates have some sort of national pension for old people.
Usually they have lots of kids so they have kids to help with the farm plus most of these countries are very conservative
My lunch from home tastes the way I want it, and it cost less, and it’s better for me…sooo yeah.
Note the pattern of how the people at the top of the economy continually blame the people at the bottom of the economy for everything going wrong.
They're pissed that the have nots aren't gleefully throwing more money at the haves.
Prices have skyrocketed, quality has tanked.
Sorry, but I have a hard time buying a salad for $10 when I can grab the ingredients for 10 salads for about $5. And they'll be higher quality. Not browning lettuce with mayo sauce.
Would you like to leave a tip for the service of grabbing your pre-made salad from the refrigerator?
Even if you donated all your money to billionaires and worked unpaid, they'd still demand more. The concept of 'enough' doesn't exist in capitalism.
Shit happens. If restaurants were more fiscally responsible and lives below their means, they would have been prepared for something like this.