From about a year ago. Huh, me thinks he has been to his island and/or ranch:

“If any of you cared about the victims, you wouldn’t drag these women who are in childbearing years now, some of them now having children, back into the limelight, back into the same story, to expose them again to this hideous outcome,” O’Leary said Tuesday. “These guys, they don’t want you to help them anymore.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-shark-tank-star-kevin-oleary-sparks-fury-with-claim-about-childbearing-epstein-victims/

Okay 🪄. Everyone who makes under 70k will never eat out again.

This eliminates more than half of the customer base of the restaurant industry, most of which promptly implodes. Millions lose their jobs. What's worse is that all that restaurant spending gets redirected towards grocery stores. Grocery stores move far more product with just a fraction of the workers and they will be damned before they hand out raises to share their new windfall profits. This drastically reduces the velocity of money in the economy and drags us into a sudden contraction.

The storefronts those restaurants occupied, the ones that used to be central meeting points for their communities, become urban blight. Those workers, too, stop being able to pay rent or buy much of anything else, which deals a collateral blow to residential real estate and every business that makes consumer goods. The collapse of the restaurant industry and the sudden blow to landlords of all varieties takes a large tax base with it, and state and local governments that rely on sales and property tax see an immediate budgetary shortfall.

These so-called titans of industry cannot see, will never see, that the "wasteful" and "unthrifty" spending they hate is utterly vital. Their distaste for the poors experiencing such luxuries as participating in simple consumption blinds them to the fact that that spending is the economy.

ETA: Instead of the rest of us tightening our belts even more, the wealthy need to spend a lot more. Fund a literacy program, hand a million dollars to a small electric car conversion company, drop a cool 10 million on urban infill, fuck, build a pyramid. Anything is better than sitting on your wealth doing nothing but chasing rent-seeking enterprises like stock buybacks and cloud infra.

“…and I’m rich because I make these suckers pay $28 foe lunch.” - Rich CEO.

I mean.... if you spend $28 everyday on lunch, that's $7000 a year, or 10% of your gross income if you make $70k, which is actually a huge amount of money to spend on lunch.

And whose fault is it that lunch costs $28????????

Avocado toast all over again. They do this to every generation.

Bruh, I wish I made $70,000/yr. It was what I went to college for after all only for the entire world to change after 4 years, now I can't afford myself and in debt.

Regardless, this is ignoring the fact that inflation has increased the cost of groceries in general, not just lunch. Even though Trump ran on it, apparently inflation never actually happened now that he's in office. The collective amnesia from the right when it benefits them is just infuriating

Last time I went to a food truck by my office a very basic lunch was $22. And that was before the machine assumed you should tip 18%.

Hands up who isn't making anywhere near 70k.

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Cocaine O’Leary w/ his cocaine ideas again

When he was a junior asshole, that $28 meal would cost $9.

I personally think food inflation has rather exceeded the median rate so it’s probably even less than that; my lived experience says that in 2019 I could get a meal for $15-20 and now it’s $25-30, but the inflation calculator disagrees.

It's wild that these elites are shitting on people spending $27 on a meal...

It's not 2017, that doesn't buy you much of a meal.

The cheapest food in my town I can think of is still a solid $8-9. And that is for a very unappetizing sandwich. A small upgrade to a chain "Jersey Mike's Sub" puts you back $11.15 before tax - no drink, no chips.

lets just fucking kill him

Why is he wearing 2 watches?

$70,000 is a lot more than the median individual income. You can probably afford to spend a bit on lunch if you're single and making that amount.

He's right, people should stop spending $28 on lunch and just eat the rich instead.

Stupid indeed.

Instead of paying $28 for lunch, they should just eat the rich.

we should eat him for lunch and see what that costs

You got two watches on homie

How do we go about starting a political party whose main tenet is dining upon the wealthy?

Is this an American thing, $28 for lunch doesn’t sound that outrageous today as a Canadian (it’s like $20 USD)

Fuck, I wish I was making 70k a year how do I live in this fantasy world?

Detached from reality old dude strikes again. It's easy enough for a single meal at a fast food drive through to be $15 these days.

People that can impulse buy outragiously expensive watches and cars shouldn't be lecturing the plebs on what to splurge on.

Especially not food. Food is one of last big joys of life for the commoners. Any splurge here is entirely valid.

These people need to stop getting platformed. If you're in such a position, please just enjoy your privilege in silence and leave us the fuck alone.