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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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] carotte 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

Why aren't you buying diamonds?

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

I spent all my money on candles

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

no diamond funko pop yet

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

🎙️🪗Burn it all

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 17 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 23 points 1 year ago

Insert coins to continue

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

If this ends up bankrupting McD I'll be happy

[-] Rognaut@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year 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 1 year ago
[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year 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 1 year ago
[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Seeds are ~~trademarked~~ patented

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Patented actually thanks Bayer

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago
[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

The truth: Food is expensive

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

Here's hoping pay goes up and grocery prices stagnate

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago
[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

Why give this terrible article more clicks

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] venusaur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

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