• WanderWisley@lemmy.worldOP
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      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.

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    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.

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      $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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        would make a huge difference

        would make jack fuck. If there is no inflation (lol) and you want to scrounge enough money to have something to just about survive, you can start saving 30k per year right now, and in 53 years you will meet your goal.
        The realistic question is “will I be alive in 53 years” and realistic answer for most of us is “what the fuck of course no”. But if you’re a toddler and have some stupid ideas about the existance of the future still, then yeah, you could start asking why does lunch costs $28, or why do you need to not eat now to eat later, shouldn’t be there some smarter system about it.

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          Sounds like you know fuck all about finance. “If there’s no inflation.” Uh, yeah. That 30k a year is beating inflation by a LOT in any sort of investment.

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      That is your retirement right there. Plug those numbers into a retirement calculator.

      Was it worth it?

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        If you don’t afford yourself good things, and don’t spend any money, you can remove it from the economy so when you’re old and can’t work anymore, you can fight with billionaires to get a portion of that money back so you can afford one instance of medical help.
        Who am I kidding, there will be no medical care by the time you retire.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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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        I work at a hospital that provides hospital based insurance for their employees. I paid more in copays to use their Physical Therapy staffed by PT students than it was to go to a local out of network PT place.

        They still couldn’t determine exactly how I injured my knee not how to help. This, in addition to all the steps it took to get to the Rehab referral aspect wiped out 2 years of my FSA

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    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
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      … 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.

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

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

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    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