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

"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.

GenZ complains about having so much debt and not enough income but they keep buying food! How can they expect to succeed when they waste their money so frivolously?!

..... That's what this headline reads like to me. How dare you buy food with the money you should be spending on the interest you owe to the owners of the country.

Reading the actual article, the lunacy and delusion is real. You don't even get three paragraphs in and they're using a sales engineer's thoughts to represent young people as a whole.

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.

Bitch, it is cheaper to buy the fully cooked rotisserie chicken at the grocery store than the UNCOOKED WHOLE CHICKEN.

Don't fucking tell me how to math, you assholes made corporations people, so I think we have very different ideas of what is important in this world.

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?

Newspaper: Americans Eat Too Much Ultra processed food.

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

"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

It’s depressing just how quickly and comprehensively Jeff Bezos has managed to destroy the WSJ. It used to be respected internationally, now it’s just a grubby little clickfarm.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

"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

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

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

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

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.

Same energy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Splurging on double ply toilet paper that is free of bark. Recklessly spending on biannual toothbrushs. carelessly using their lunch break to eat instead of adopting mico-hussles. foolishly agreeing to pay rent instead of taking money out of their grandfather's equity built trust fund to buy expansive rental properties.

why are they so bad with money?

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

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.