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[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 179 points 3 months ago
[-] grue@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago

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.)

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 24 points 3 months ago
[-] EmpatheticTeddyBear@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Yeah... I wish I didn't, but I get that reference...

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[-] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 82 points 3 months ago

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?

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 months ago

You can afford instant ramen?!

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[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 28 points 3 months ago

Stop buying (checks notes) food!! 🥑😤

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[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 61 points 3 months ago

You’ll never afford a house if you keep eating FOOD!

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 52 points 3 months ago

In five years when its even more dire WSJ will be posting about how millenials are splurging on sliced bread and milk.

[-] West_of_West@piefed.social 21 points 3 months ago

If Gen Alpha would just be happy with water they could own a home!

[-] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Hoarding all their functional kidneys instead of buying a starter home for eight million dollars.

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 48 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] SCmSTR 13 points 3 months ago

Isn't the Costco chicken famously $5?

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[-] pentastarm@piefed.ca 44 points 3 months ago

"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

[-] _lilith@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago

Most millennials are approaching 40. get off our balls WSJ you old fucks did this

[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago

The desperation of maintaining a class war against millennials is a major indicator that the ruse is about to fail

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago

Saying millennials makes it a bit more obscured that their headline is saying that "40 year olds are still swamped in unrecoverable student debt".

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[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

Headline in two years: Gen Z'ers are splurging on food instead of giving their money to the rich.

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[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 32 points 3 months ago

Splurging on the cheapest animal protein.. Wowee, really living it up in 2026!

[-] Threeskittiesinatrenchcoat@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Roast chickens are loss leaders and are often the cheapest chicken you can find in a regular grocery store.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 29 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

If you saved that $5 instead of wasting it on food every day, then in 275 years you could afford the average house!

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[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Newspaper: Americans Eat Too Much Ultra processed food.

Same Newspaper: Look at these little shits splurging on veggies and chicken.

[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 25 points 3 months ago

Rich dickheads not only want us to be deprived of the good things in life, but also to starve. I hate them.

[-] vane@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Gen Z are buying food, that is why they can't afford houses. What logic is that ?

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[-] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 months ago

"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.

[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

"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

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[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

I could eat for free for the next 50 years and still not be able to buy a home

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[-] alejandra@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] sirscooter@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 months ago

So we are not supposed to ....eat?

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[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 18 points 3 months ago

Let them eat cake of our times.

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 months ago

Imagine writing billionaire propaganda and not being able to work out the cost effectiveness of rotisserie chicken.

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[-] Baguette 16 points 3 months ago

The wall street journal aren't good journalists.

They cater towards rich people and as such:

  1. Grant a sense of superiority through highlighting financial disparity
  2. 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

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[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 16 points 3 months ago
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[-] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 15 points 3 months ago

What is gross is that rotisserie chicken is cheaper than a raw roaster.

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[-] JollyBrancher@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago

You mean the rotisserie chickens that are $5-6, compared to lunch meat being at 10-12/lb? Splurging on that rotisserie chicken purchase?

[-] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 13 points 3 months ago

That rotisserie chicken that I can stretch into like three to five meals, including making broth? That one?

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[-] nieminen@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Rotisserie chicken is one of the most affordable chicken options....

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[-] MonkeyDumpster@lemmy.org 12 points 3 months ago

these articles are just trolling at this point with these kinds of headlines...

[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Whats next... splurging on ramen, spaghetti, and hotdogs?

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