
That doesn't account for the time value of money. The reality is even worse because the price of the house is continuing to increase as you push the purchase off into the future. (I haven't done the math, but it could very well be increasing faster than $5 day, so in reality foregoing the rotisserie chicken doesn't make you make progress at all, but only fall behind slower.)
$5 for a whole chicken? That's cheap as fuck. What does the WSJ expect gen z and millennials to eat? Their mom's cooking?
A single meal for $5 would be a deal. A rotisserie chicken can feed a family, or a single person could eat it for days.
This is just more "anyone who isn't a millionaire doesn't deserve to eat" rhetoric from the world's billionaires.
Also, as a 30y.o. millennial, I object to the characterization of the "oldest gen z" being 30. I've earned my place among 20th century-borns!
It doesn’t matter what food you eat, it’s still too good for you. How long until the articles about “splurging” on instant ramen come out?
Stop buying (checks notes) food!! 🥑😤
In five years when its even more dire WSJ will be posting about how millenials are splurging on sliced bread and milk.
If Gen Alpha would just be happy with water they could own a home!
Hoarding all their functional kidneys instead of buying a starter home for eight million dollars.
The rotisserie chicken that costs $7 and is enough for two meals? That’s a “splurge”?
Ok, well I guess I should stop splurging on shoes and water too.
Isn't the Costco chicken famously $5?
Yes, but there is also the membership fee for Costco. Basically any grocery store will have rotisserie chicken for $7-$10.
https://www.albertsons.com/shop/product-details.960464807.html
https://www.kroger.com/pl/rotisserie-chicken/0500200007
https://www.walmart.com/browse/food/rotisserie-chicken/976759_9569500_1001443_9284629_8331739
Most millennials are approaching 40. get off our balls WSJ you old fucks did this
The desperation of maintaining a class war against millennials is a major indicator that the ruse is about to fail
Saying millennials makes it a bit more obscured that their headline is saying that "40 year olds are still swamped in unrecoverable student debt".
"Millennials and Gen Z are splugering on clean water while trying to pay down their unbelievable debt from getting a 50 year mortgage on a cardboard box under the freeway overpass!!"
-WSJ in 5 years probably
Headline in two years: Gen Z'ers are splurging on food instead of giving their money to the rich.
Splurging on the cheapest animal protein.. Wowee, really living it up in 2026!
Roast chickens are loss leaders and are often the cheapest chicken you can find in a regular grocery store.
If you buy a rotisserie chicken, a seven layer dip and some tortillas all you have to do is make rice and you have enough food for a family or a single person for a couple days for cheap.
I make black bean based veggie patties; not because I'm a vegetarian, but because a can of black beans is cheap. I call them struggle burgers. I can't wait to be demonized for buying fucking beans. Fuck this timeline.
If you saved that $5 instead of wasting it on food every day, then in 275 years you could afford the average house!
Newspaper: Americans Eat Too Much Ultra processed food.
Same Newspaper: Look at these little shits splurging on veggies and chicken.
Rich dickheads not only want us to be deprived of the good things in life, but also to starve. I hate them.
Gen Z are buying food, that is why they can't afford houses. What logic is that ?
"Splurging" on one of the most prolific loss leaders in grocery is certainly one way to say it. We're buying them because it's the cheapest way to eat
"Splurging“ on the absolute cheapest most preservative laiden meat available, cheapeer than fucking Spam, and Gut healthy jucis because they can't afford to go to a doctor.
Fucking ghouls.
I could eat for free for the next 50 years and still not be able to buy a home
It’s kind of wild how everyday groceries get framed as luxuries. Sometimes people are just trying to eat something convenient and affordable, not make a statement about their finances.
Let them eat cake of our times.
Imagine writing billionaire propaganda and not being able to work out the cost effectiveness of rotisserie chicken.
The wall street journal aren't good journalists.
They cater towards rich people and as such:
- Grant a sense of superiority through highlighting financial disparity
- Portray news in terms of how they would affect rich people, like tax breaks being good for the economy (the economy being billionaires for wsj)
Nothing they write is objective
Walmart and Sam's near me have started rationing theit rotisserie chickens, they only make a certain number per day and when they are gone they don't make any more.
People often think of Sam's Club and Costco as sort of equivalent, but they're not and that kind of thing is one of the reasons why.
What is gross is that rotisserie chicken is cheaper than a raw roaster.
You mean the rotisserie chickens that are $5-6, compared to lunch meat being at 10-12/lb? Splurging on that rotisserie chicken purchase?
That rotisserie chicken that I can stretch into like three to five meals, including making broth? That one?
these articles are just trolling at this point with these kinds of headlines...
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