Yeah if he thinks 70k is poor... Woah buddy

I make if I am lucky 35k this year. Fucker if I made double that then I could afford this. But fuck that asshole. Billionaires should never tell us how to live.

It depends where you live. 70k in a big city area barely covers rent on a studio apartment.

First if you want to spend $28 on lunch do it just to spite big Kev.

I'm single and make about twice that figure and there is zero chance I would spend $28 on lunch let alone on any kind of recurring basis. People just need to do the little things that make them happy, if thats eating out do it.

Per day, that'd be 1/7th of the annual pretax income.

When he was in his twenties, $5 would have been an indulgent lunch, and you'd probably still receive some change

Probably subsidized by the company too

Was gonna say it’s more an indictment on rising food costs than individual choices.

Also the “poor people are poor because they buy slightly nice things” is such a shit argument.

It's way less than that. In 2013, you could still get a $2 meal deal from Taco Bell that came with a burrito, bag of Doritos, and a drink. That's $2.80 in today's money. Then, I remember some dinner prices from places my parents took me when I was a kid. They're boomers so they love going to all you can eat buffets. Using that calculator, the adult price for an all you can eat pizza buffet at a CiCi's in 2000 would be $5.69 in today's money. In 2005, the adult dinner price for an all you can eat buffet at Furr's Cafeteria would be $8.39 in today's money. Even in 2013, there was an AYCE Chinese buffet that would be $7 in today's money. Those are dinner prices. And if you didn't want to eat like a boomer, there were plenty of cheaper options. But just to put things into perspective a lot of those same things don't cost $6-9 today. They cost $20+.

yep, same script - "it's your fault and you should feel ashamed."

I wasn't for most of my life until I finally was and then I became disabled shortly thereafter, prompting the government to decide that I should live on sub-poverty wages which aren't enough to feed myself because it's easier and cheaper for them if I just die.

Well, these same assholes then turn around and blame people when they stop spending money on shit like this, as it starts to affect their profits.

"Millenials are killing the food industry!!!"

Look at all the judgement that gets cast in the media for gen Z for not drinking alcohol as much as every other generation.

Around me, the only meal you can get for under $10 is banh mi. I'm very grateful for those reasonable prices, but I'm also not exaggerating.

My work recently treated my group of coworkers to subs, but I don't eat meat and didn't have any. Instead, my manager said she'd reimburse me, and broke down the price of the sandwiches (which everyone else split) to calculate $7 per person. So I was given $7 Doordash credit.

$7. On Doordash. The fuck am I supposed to do with that?

I guess because you use the word 'town' that a shitty chain sub might actually be a true upgrade, but for anyone in even a smallish city, look around for little hole in the wall independent restaurants because I guarantee you can get much better food for much cheaper than the shit you'll get at chain restaurants. Off the top of my head I can think of at least 5 sub shops and delis in my area that will give you a much bigger better sandwich than subway, for a little over half the price. Then there's shawarma shops, Chinese take ours that will fill up the take out container so full that it's too much to eat in a sitting, burger places where you can sit down and have a burger and a beer for the price of a McDonald's meal and it'll be twice the size, pizza joints with walk in specials where you can get a small pizza for the price of a slice at pizza-pizza, Caribbean restaurants where there isn't even a fast food alternative, fucking lots of places. Don't settle for some bullshit just because it's familiar.

Just don’t eat takeout/restaurant food then. Here in canada you can easily make meals for less than 5$ per portion, much less if you don’t eat meat.

Hell just buying precooked food at the grocery store costs ~7$ for a high-quality meal. I can’t imagine anyone paying 27$ for a regular meal.

What did you study

Do what I do: work multiple jobs and then lie about your income.

2 tell time

now imagine you still make 30k and also most of your friends cant get jobs to begin with and still with parents in their mid 20s and also half of them are having mental breakdowns and thats the gen z experience

What does a homeless person make? $100,000 a year?

The average income is around $84,000, so if you are making less, your employer is fucking you over. The difference between your income and $84,000, is what your employer stole from you and called "Profit."

Yeah did he say this recently because this is just how much lunch costs now. I'm not happy about it and in the US the tipping culture is more out of hand than ever before but this is largely because employers aren't paying fair wages. We are all basically just helping each other out, but this is just shuffling money at the bottom of the pyramid while the top pays even less.

Bro, why aren't you even meal prepping rice and beans for lunch every day, bro? Eat your porridge peasant.

You can and should push 0℅ on those unless you were waited on or report them to a local, eager authority if they do an automatic tip.

He's pretty gross, but I think we could make it turn out well enough if we stew him with some herbs and veggies.

This is the new avocado toast slur that boomers are gonna use to describe the younger generations lack of not being able to afford anything.