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.
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.
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?
"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.
Headline in two years: Gen Z’ers are splurging on food instead of giving their money to the rich.
Gen Z and millennials are splurging on breathing air.
“GenZ struggling to survive in the lower levels of MegaCity5. Their blood is too low in iron to keep the immortal rich alive.”
Yeah that might be the most accurate to the blaming tone these kinds of articles write with and to what they will take from us.
Just need to jazz it up with some homemade slang to hide the sad bits and the immortal rich part.
“GenZ struggling in well stocked MegaCity5; “Fecal-de-Cal” diet blamed for lack of macro nutrients during their mandatory weekly Blood-Up donations.”
literally, the conservative culture of boot licking the billionaires never ceases to amaze me
I’m hungry. When do we eat?
You mean the rotisserie chickens that are $5-6, compared to lunch meat being at 10-12/lb? Splurging on that rotisserie chicken purchase?
There is a reason we think boomers are out of touch.
They bought houses with high school diplomas for 6 walnuts. Why can’t you kids do the same?
Try to explain to them that we will never be as weathly as they are and how we will receive 0 inheritance from them because they planned out how to spend their entire retirement savings not knowing what end of life care actually costs.
That rotisserie chicken that I can stretch into like three to five meals, including making broth? That one?
Good ol’ rotisserie chicken, rice, n beans. Sauce of choice. A legendary combination.
“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
Up next: Gen Z splurging on costco hotdogs and mi goreng instant noodles.
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.
Check out Daddy Warbucks over here with his canned beans! Dried beans are even cheaper.
That lucky bastard! Lucky, lucky, lucky bastard.
I DREAM of the day I can revel in canned beans! No soaking! No spices! No massive pot!
lucky, lucky, lucky bastard
You are correct, they are. Wet beans saves me time from having to soak them. Lentils are they only ones I buy dry because they cook fast without soaking.
Every time I try soaking dry beans I forget about them and they get gross.
I never bother soaking em. Pressure cooker (instant pot) does the job. I don’t throw away the liquid either, that’s good vitamins. Just do the beans most of the way in stock and spices, throw in rice and quinoa, close it up and cook it the rest of the way. Super easy.
Beans were once seen as poverty food. In the great depression at least. They were the Ramen noodles of that era.
Protein, plus fiber, plus complex carbohydrates. What’s not to love? Plus it makes a smaller environmental impact compared to farming poultry or larger animals. It was mind blowing to hear rags like the WSJ demonize the younger generation for eating avocado toast; it’s a fucking cheap meal. Avocados were like $1 a pop and are a good source of fiber and health fat. I can’t wait for rags like the WSJ to start publishing articles like, “How dare the poors waste money on eating!”
They are great. I was going to make a bean stew yesterday but this article made me go buy a roast chicken just to spite them. Beans are for tonight!
Yeah, avocados imported into Canada are expensive but if they grow near you I can see them being stupid cheap.
Newspaper: Americans Eat Too Much Ultra processed food.
Same Newspaper: Look at these little shits splurging on veggies and chicken.
So we are not supposed to …eat?
The rich don’t understand the purpose of food, having never missed a meal in their lives.
Ending your sentence after “rich” would have been good enough to answer the question.
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.
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
They’re not journalists at all.
I really wish there’s an alternative to the Wall Street Journal, but from the perspective of the proletariat.
It’s just a picture of a guillotine.
If you saved that $5 instead of wasting it on food every day, then in 275 years you could afford the average house!
Rotisserie chicken now $7.99 at the grocery stores around here. They also roast them breast-down which makes the white meat greasy as hell, and hard to carve. I just buy a big thing of chicken strips, cook them at the beginning of the week, and use them for protein in every meal throughout the week. All my meals are based around this now.
“Rotisserie” derives from “rotate”, as in the chicken is constantly being rotated as it’s cooked. If it’s being roasted breast-down (or breast-up, or any other consistent breast direction) then it’s not rotisserie.
Sorry I should say it’s packaged breast-down, so the breast are compacted hard and full of grease by the time you get it. Nasty way to do it.
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.)
Yeah… I wish I didn’t, but I get that reference…
I’ll just be satisfied with knowing what this guy is about to do, but not actually seeing the footage myself.
Me too budd, me too
sigh same. We’ve been on the internet too long.
hey man nice shot
$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!
Can feed a family yes, but isn’t truly a meal on its own. Add some rice and beans, and now you’ve got a decent meal that has a tad more nutrition/balance than just straight up chicken.
You’re right, it needs some veggies too. But honestly if you’re having rice and beans, and something iron-rich like broccoli, then the chicken isn’t even necessary.
But we all know the people complaining about this aren’t advocating for vegetarianism…
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