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$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.

Stupid indeed.

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

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.

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

You got two watches on homie

We're not poor because of what we spend, and they fucking know it.

Its $28 because you rich assholes ruin everything

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

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

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.

It's insulting that this guy says 70k like it's a low salary (for "kids" as he says). I make a quarter of that. I also know a lot more retired old people who never made close to that in their lifetime than ones who did make that much

And if I did make that much it would still feel insulting because I'm pretty sure most people making 70k can easily afford weekly $28 lunches...

Edit: Just saw that this motherfucker is wearing two expensive watches on the photo... absolutely repulsive person

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

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.

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

Oh no! Another asshole billionaire who is out of touch with reality. Whatever will we do?

Said the Person with two watches

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

I've seen this argument from people before, with avocado toast and Starbucks and everything else, but no one seems to ask why lunch is $28 or blame the people charging $28 for lunch as part of the problem

lets just fucking kill him

Why is he wearing 2 watches?

I went to Subway last night. You know, the 5-dollar footlong place.

A footlong sub was $12 (not the meal - just the sandwich).

McDonalds is charging 8 dollars for a breakfast muffin.

My rent has gone from 800 to 2000 since Covid.

I have to fill my tank 3 times a weeks, and right now that costs 50 bucks.

On top of that, I have to help my parents out because their pension didn't account for real-world inflation and their extremely comfy retirement turned out not to be nearly enough when the grocery bill doubled.

That 73k I make does less than the 30k I made back in 2016.

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.

Wait is $70,000 a year a low amount of money? That's an insane amount of money to be considered poor.

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.

we should eat him for lunch and see what that costs

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%.

Last week I had some $15 curry to celebrate getting a new job. I think that's the most expensive meal I've had all year

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/

i want to jam his face into a waffle iron

It's giving $10 banana vibes

Enemy.

Ah yes, that famously cheap commodity of food, that has not jumped in price at all.

I mean good thing bread is cheap and there was no price fixing. I mean someone making $70,000 (above average) a year should not even think of eating more then gruel (not that that is cheap anymore) let alone at a restaurant. Not like the whole system is based on spending money, I am sure a business insider article will fix that though.

It's because people like him exist that we are poor.

Him and his generation took everything and talking high and mighty just because they had first dibs on everything before we got a chance to have any kind of decent life.

Nothing he says should be taken seriously and he should be another example of why the rich need to be removed from existence.