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Definitely has nothing to do with sky-rocketing food prices in our capitalist hellscape.

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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 218 points 2 years ago

I like how these are always new hip trends.

Gen Z is super into living with lots of roommates!
Gen Z absolutely loves not having children!
Gen Z new craze is having sleep for dinner!

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 118 points 2 years ago

It happened to us millennials, and now it's happening to you. Fucking boomer clickbait

[-] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 70 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I wonder what’s next

Working Four Jobs: Learn All About Gen Alpha’s Favorite Concept!

Why Gen Alpha is Obsessed With Eating Their Roommates’ Remains

New Study Finds that Gen Alpha’s Favorite Emotion is 'Unfathomable Despair'!

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 2 years ago

Why aren't you buying diamonds?

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

I spent all my money on candles

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

no diamond funko pop yet

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Fuck diamonds! I want a man that gives me a fucking GAGG Lumogarnet damn it!

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

🎙️🪗Burn it all

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 17 points 2 years ago

Cuz these economists look at wealth in aggregate, but look at behavior by market segment.

Asset prices have been skyrocketing. That only really helps people who have assets, but it still brings up the average enough to make the economy look it's doing great overall even despite the consumer price inflation.

So if you see that young adults are moving back in with their parents while living in an economy that is, in aggregate, "the strongest it's ever been"... you can only explain it as a matter of preference.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 96 points 2 years ago

Or alternatively

Food now 2nd highest expense after rent for young people after pandemic supply chain disruption and industry consolidation.

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 27 points 2 years ago

I learned the term greedflation yesterday, combine with shrinkflation for extra afk enshitification 🫠

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Don't forget skimpflation. I can't even eat a lot of the food I used to as a kid because the quality is so terrible now.

Looking at you Tim Hortons.

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Also known as shitflation, as Wikipedia informs me. Haven't personally noticed it but sounds like a thing this capitalist hellspcape we live in would totally love to do as much as possible. 😓

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Theres a way out you know.

I mean, two ways out, but if you kill yourself without taking a cop or oligarch with you; you're not helping.

[-] antidote101@lemmy.world 67 points 2 years ago

Eating to continue living, now considered the primary "luxury" of this generation! Oh joy!

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 23 points 2 years ago

Insert coins to continue

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Given that having somewhere to do said living and eating was a luxury I’m not at all surprised they’d call this a luxury too.

[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 54 points 2 years ago

If this ends up bankrupting McD I'll be happy

[-] Rognaut@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

I personally boycott McDs due to skyrocketing prices for the same shitty ultra processed garbage, among other reasons.

The food is no good, the service sucks, the prices suck. McDs just sucks.

[-] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago

Look at that 40 year old over there foolishly squandering $8 on a dozen eggs!!! LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS CHILDREN!!! YOU DON'T NEED SUCH LUXURIES!!!

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 years ago
[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

WHY ARE YOU SPENDING A FORTUNE ON HIGH END DESIGNER PRODUCTS LIKE MILK???

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Seeds are ~~trademarked~~ patented

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

Patented actually thanks Bayer

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago
[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What they want you to think: "Groceries are the new in thing"

The truth: Food is expensive

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago

You know we need a new youth trend: organized gangs who steal bread and stab the fuck out of anyone who tries to stop them.

[-] Sneptaur@pawb.social 18 points 2 years ago

I mean for what it’s worth, as my income has gone up I’ve chosen more expensive ingredients for cooking. Usually those things are more local anyway, like at my local farmers market or food co-op.

[-] loops@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago

I "splurged" on some local made bread the other day. By god, it's the best bread I've ever had.

[-] SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Same here, but within the past year or so we've had to reverse course so we can stay within our grocery budget.

[-] Sneptaur@pawb.social 5 points 2 years ago

Here's hoping pay goes up and grocery prices stagnate

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I’m not gen Z but I did similar as my earnings went up as a millennial. I’d rather make my own food with better ingredients for the sake of my health than buy “luxury” goods that are often just overpriced trash

[-] rizoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago

I've got a wife and a kid and I will say that I live in butt-fuck nowhere where everything is cheaper than anywhere else, however groceries are still getting way too expensive.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

“Spends more on groceries than on other categories” so they’re poor. You can just say that. It turns out your money needs to go to keeping you alive before it goes to other things, and if you don’t have much money left after that, you can’t exactly spend more than you spent on food on other things.

Imagine being a consultant and get paid to write completely pointless things like that.

[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Gen Z ruining luxury car market by splurging on housing and basic nutrition

[-] venusaur@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Gen Z spending much less on flat screen TV’s than previous generations.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago
[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago

Why give this terrible article more clicks

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

It deserves the attention and ridicule. It needs to know it did bad and should feel bad.

[-] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I don't think a human wrote this steaming hot piece of horsedung

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