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54% of young Americans are splurging on luxuries such as groceries and need to learn how to cut back of frivolous expenses
But also, please do not stop buying frivolous items or else the entire economy will collapse.
One meal a day should be enough for everybody.
It's not being broke, it's intermittent fasting!
You only need one ration of Soylent to be a happy and productive associate of your loving company!
Anything more than that is wasted money and time you can better use to invest in yourself!
You joke but I'm already only eating 2 meals in a day
you and 39% of Americans apparently https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alarming-39-americans-skipped-meals-120000123.html
Millennials are killing the being alive industry
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I go to the grocery store and tomatoes will be randomly $7? And next week it's something else. It's like a rolling brownout for the economy.
I heard a great point recently about how the Soviet Union was just willing to accept shortages and not try to obfuscate them. The current model of distribution will not permit shortages to be obvious, so the failures of the supply chain will just take the form of things randomly being obscenely expensive
The way we stock our grocery stores with the expectation that a third of the food will just go to waste is unbelievably unsustainable, but it's a hell of a marketing gimmick. Feasts and cornucopias and all of that used to be special because they were rare - but in America we show you that image over and over until it becomes your expectation, and not surprisingly Americans wind up consuming way more than other cultures do as a result.
People need to stop expecting every fruit and vegetable to be available fresh year round. I shouldn't be able to get fresh berries in the middle of winter.
Fresh fish too is such a killer. I’m sorry, but do not buy seafood if you live in the Midwestern United States, especially anything live or fresh. Frozen is slightly better, but even then think of what goes in to making that happen.
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Historically, food insecurity has been the revolutionary straw that breaks regimes' backs, even in the most repressive regimes. Wall Street is playing with fire here. We all know about the "peace, land, and bread" slogan, and you can be damn sure that it was the "bread" part that most caught the attention of the peasants.
As Lenin put it, every society is three meals away from chaos.
That's the thing about Rome's bread and circuses - they worked for like a thousand years.
No peace, no land and soon no bread
I have an incredible deal on rent in NYC and shop very conservatively for food. Why do I have to pay almost 30K a year, not counting any other living expenses, to just eat the bare minimum food and sleep in the bare minimum accommodations? If you gave this info to somebody living in the Soviet Union they wouldn’t even believe you because it sounds like such unbelievable bullshit that it surely would have to be propaganda.
Coupons aren't even as effective!
I snip and cut away, use their stupid apps
And somehow only manage to save like 3 dollars????!!!
For me the issue is that coupons are often for brand name items and the coupon rarely makes it more cost effective than buying store brand.
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Pretty sure it is some STEMlord's job to ensure the coupons and couponing apps are designed with precise calculation in order to not benefit the consumer in the long run but only appear that way.
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But I was told that inflation was gone and that the economy is going great?! 
Inflation may be lowered but no one ever said anything about bringing prices back down
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Please heed our call Mr. Kelogg. People are demanding sawdust-enriched cereals.
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no it's not. Inflation is down actually
Thank goodness the rate at which calories get more expensive has gone down. Surely a reduction in how fast things get expensive means that we can now afford them despite their prices not getting lower.
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It's groceries sweetheart, how much could it cost a week, $350? 
the thing that everyone absolutely must have to live on a daily basis is a huge concern for those people now that the price of it is increasing rapidly?
news at 11
My favorite thing about this dystopian nightmare we all exist in is that during the height of the pandemic, food costs basically tripled over night FOR NO GOD DAMN REASON.
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ummm i am very surprised the majority are not saying HOUSING COSTS.
But that's probably because a lot of people are just having to keep living at home with their parents forever. which i guess leaves food costs....
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It does seem like every time I go to the grocery store these days I'm dropping $60-70 on not very fancy things
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started going to a certain discount eurogrocery store in the city and basically cut my bills in half. and i work at a grocery store (not that one)
shoutout to the "so over this shit" twink that haphazardly throws my food into a cart. i get it, i really do
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I was going to say I don't understand what people could be eating that would make them feel like food costs are a bigger strain than housing costs, but based on the sample size and age target I wonder how much of this is skewed by younger people living with parents, dorms, etc. Rents all over my state have doubled in the past few years. Food had definitely gone up by a few dollars here and there, but none of my regular groceries have doubled in price.
It's also probably people who've lived with crushing rent burdens for so long that they feel like a background aspect of life, not something that can be changed.
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Yeah I think you're right. My food bill is up around 50% but it's still less than half of housing.
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I would have thought housing would have been the highest.
More than half of people under 30 live with their parents now.
And I'm not saying that's necessary a bad thing, that's a norm in most parts of the world. But we aren't really socialized that way. People are living at home with parents who harangue them daily about not getting a good enough job and who aren't planning on leaving their home to their children.
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i can't afford the avocado toast at the cafe down the street anymore so now i have to make it at home.
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Literally every other day Im spending 40-50 dollars at the grocery store on bullshit. I mean like 18 of that is beer but
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