icystar

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[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

They're charging you the most you're willing to pay while giving you the least you're willing to accept.

You're not "just" paying for convenience, your paying for the luxurious lifestyles of those maximizing profit and defending them in the process.

I used to think useful idiots were the exception.

Edit: Downvotes check out. It's easier to fool a man than to convince him he'd been fooled.

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What are you talking about?

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su -4 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Whatever is enough to keep me just under the amount to qualify for welfare.

Fuck the ruling class.

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The math works out and they can do it, they just end up having no savings.

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, pizza is more cheap shit with insane profit margins.

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su -3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

because it doesn’t involve a third party.

Man, the rationales some people have for why they let some people rip them off but not others is mind-boggling.

Really reinforces my opinion of the average person.

I can’t take my family out to eat for under $100.

Are you in fucking Belize? Do you have a family of at least 8? Are you horrible with money?

Or maybe this is just hyperbole.

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Snacks are an incredible waste of money and they have some of the largest profit margins of all grocery items. $5 for a bag of chips that isn't even a pound is disgusting, but they charge it because people pay it. It only makes sense to buy snacks if you're wealthy from screwing other people over, or you're on welfare.

If you want to eat cheap, you need to swallow your pride. Probably one of the best meals that just about anyone can make is a microwave meatball sub with raw broccoli and carrots on the side. Extremely easy, very cheap, filling, and it's always going to be delicious if you're actually hungry.

Get used to eating the same things over and over again, and stop treating food like entertainment.

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su -3 points 3 days ago (14 children)

£25 (~US$34), which is about the price of a decent meal for one person in a low-end restaurant here.

Bullshit.

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

A lot of the younger generation has been convinced to live above their means, or at least in such a way that they are not preparing at all financially for their future.

Since most of them can't cook and are afraid to try new things, they just eat fast food for most of their meals because it's embarrassing for them to prepare their own meals.

Pride has much do with it, although it's undeserved.

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su 1 points 3 days ago

Groceries delivered, make my own meals.

I haven't eaten at a restaurant in years and I don't plan on that changing any time soon.

[–] icystar@lemmy.cif.su -2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Never seen or read harry potter.

Always looked lame to me.

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