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I had leftover tacos for lunch...
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this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2026
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People that can impulse buy outragiously expensive watches and cars shouldn't be lecturing the plebs on what to splurge on.
Especially not food. Food is one of last big joys of life for the commoners. Any splurge here is entirely valid.
These people need to stop getting platformed. If you're in such a position, please just enjoy your privilege in silence and leave us the fuck alone.
I think the point here is a daily $28 lunch is 1/7th of their entire pretax income
I get it but I highly doubt most people actually do these expensive lunches daily. This is also not strictly speaking what is the text of the OP, assuming the text is correct he's questioning people getting a 28 dollar lunch full stop.
Also, food is 1/3rd of the things that keep you alive and healthy. Food taking up a large part of your money really isn't that wild. Things like rent taxes and utilities taking up more than half, that is wild, and really the only reason why 28 dollar lunches could be considered questionable on that income.
The world is also just what it is, incomes have been trailing behind inflation for a long time now. Because of these same people. I'm a cheapskate but I can't get my groceries under 150~200 a week for just myself and my wife. Not without sacrificing health at least, the only way to get cheaper is taking a deep dive into canned and/or highly processed food, but that just isn't happening.