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🎶 five dollar foot longggg 🎶

Fifteen*
- 🎶 five dollar 1¼ foot longggg 🎶

And cups of yogurt go from 25¢ to $1.50 while also going from 8oz to 5.5oz.

You can still be a middle-aged Tiktok star complaining about the high prices compared to the good old days.

That option remains. Seize it. Dominate the airwaves. Organize a rebellion.

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Fif teen
Fif teen dollar foot long

Saw a canister of alive oil going for almost $50 the other day, tsk

Climate change fucked the harvest, and probally will continue to do so.
Alive oil comes from the fountain of youth. For a canister that's a great deal!

I blame Hardee’s normalizing a $6 burger mid 2000’s, oh and greed, a fuck ton of greed.

They couldn't even offer the $6 Burger for $6 longer than a month or so. They were almost immediately $7 or more. They were also supposed to be comparable to a sit-down restaurant burger. Somehow they cost more and are lower quality. It's cheaper to get a burger at Denny's than it is to get a burger at any fast food place these days, and it's a better and bigger burger.
- Yeah chili's is 10.99 for an app, burger and fries

well but also just born in time to live the golden age of computer games as a teenager. oh man those gorgeous manuals of 1990-2000 era games

If you're on board with puzzle games and a bit of Souls-adjacent combat, you should check out Tunic. It is very relevant to the thing about manuals, even as a digital-only game
Civ2 manual was probably the biggest book I'd seen as kid apart from Bible
As I read your comment, I could smell the manual, hear the gentle crack as I broke the hymen of a new manual, it's semiglossy pages revealing the secrets of button layouts to me.
- Uhhhh phrasing
The joy of using red filters to find keywords to start those games.

It used to be born just in time to order LSD off the Internet. I am sure this is still somewhat possible.

And if you were to find this out...
- We're not getting rich in this economy may as well do drugs

I was amazed a McRib combo is only 8 dollars... ONLY 8 dollars..

And that's still too rich for my blood, fuck you McDonalds, I curse you and mourn that I took the Dollar Menu for granted

Have you tried making your sandwiches at home?

Then we can afford housing!
Hooray! The ingredients cost 30 dollars and I get to eat sandwichs everyday for a week or watch the ingredients spoil. Wow greatest country in the world.
- Yeah seriously, the "cOoK aT hOmE" crowd really annoys me sometimes. Unless you only buy non-perishables, more often than not it's just not economically practical for one or two people. Grocery stores are optimized for families.
- The ingredients spoil?! Either you don't have a fridge or don't have a clue how to cook. Or maybe turn your fridge temp down?
  
  Lunch meat lasts a month, easy. Cheese? Multiple months. Bread? Depends. 1-day to 2-weeks, forever if frozen.
  
  I get ham slices every trip. Any idea how many things you can do with those?! Fry them for eggs benedict, with melted cheese on a bagel, chop into an omelette, ham and cheese melt, part of a charcuterie board, 20 different kinds of sandwiches, and more.
  
  All of that only talking about one of the ingredients you have bought. Learn to cook or pay someone a premium to do it for you. That's how it works.
- Oh goodie, first world problems. Never get sick of hearing ungrateful privileged people act the most oppressed by their super easiest problems to fix.
- sounds like a fucking good time. i love sandwiches.
- If you save $12 every work day, you save 50%. And you can buy cheaper stuff that lasts longer.
- You know, you don't have to buy everything in industrial quantities.
This only really works when you're at home.
- You'll be so amazed when you learn about sandwich boxes.
The avocados keep going bad though
- Eat them
- I had this problem. If it helps, avocados keep for a good deal longer in the refrigerator.
Game changer!

My local sub shop has great sandwiches for $8

Same. People need to stop buying from giant corporations. Everything they sell is cheap shit sold at a ridiculous price now because investors expect a 30% profit margin.
- For real. Who the fuck eats at subway these days, the food quality is absolute shit, they treat their staff like shit, and they charge you more for the pleasure

They say it's all about the timing.

You are the chosen one

Who tf pays $15 for a sandwich? Y'all motherfuckers need to learn how to cook.

Oh yeah apartment rentals/living in a vehicle are known worldwide for their spacious cabinets for pots, pans, cups, dishes, bowls, mugs, knives, forks, spatulas, spoons for eating and cooking, cutting boards, flour, sugar, yeast, oven mitts, thermometers, and sinks to clean up and counter space to cook and dry all that is needed for "learning to cook."

Happy Thanksgiving.
- Uhh, apartments have kitchens.
Yeah y'all need to learn how to be self-sufficient! Look at the people surviving during the Great depression. That's how we all need to be.
- Yes let me just grow all the food I need and raise a cow for milk and a sheep to get wool for making my own clothes on my 4'x8' balcony at my one bedroom apartment.
  
  Not all of us, and I'd argue very few of us proportionally speaking, have all kinds of land to be able to do shit like that. Check your privilege, dude
- What tf kind of lame ass strawman is that? News flash: its usually cheaper to prepare your own food. Film at 11.
- Honestly, yes. We need to learn how to make do with less. We can indulge when times are good, but some people just splurge in good times instead of saving and struggle to make do in bad times.
Literally

Just a constant reminder that gen z home ownership by individuals is up. But who cares, let's be doomers all the time. The economy certainly didn't have any effect on anything important like an election or something.

Up compared to what, where, and by how much?
- Millennials and on par with gen X. Also top third as a country.
  
  Economist put together a nice article or you can dig through the omb data. https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/04/16/generation-z-is-unprecedentedly-rich
Gen Z is just coming of age, so it makes sense that their home ownership rate is rising.
but what about new home owners? certainly no one can afford them at this prices?
Turns out bloomers trying to gaslit people about how "actually the economy is great!" wasn't an election winning strategy.
Data without context is meaningless.

https://www.redfin.com/news/homeownership-rate-by-generation-2023/

26% of adult Gen Zers owned a home in 2023, little changed from 2022. Meanwhile, the homeownership rate for millennials rose to 55% from 52%, and the rate for Gen X climbed to 72% from 70%. Still, most adult Gen Zers are tracking ahead of where their parents were at the same age. That’s likely because many Gen Z homeowners were able to buy when rates were near record lows.
I demand my right to COMPLAIN! How insensitive of you to infringe upon my right to constant butthurt!
Fuck gen z. Millennials have had it way worse and have been beaten to death by the economy since our late teens.

Also it’s mainly mommy and daddy buying them houses.

They didn’t graduate into the worst economy since the Great Depression, and then when they finally regained their footing get the rug pulled out with covid. And the cost of housing quadruple. Nah. In fact wages skyrocketed under covid if they were lucky enough to get a work from home “job”.
- Hey, graduating Gen Z here, where are those mythical high-paying remote jobs? Hell, where's somewhere that will actually look at my resume? People that got hired during COVID got laid off and now we're competing with people who have 2-4 years of experience for a junior position, inflation is significantly higher and paying for college and rent didn't exactly get easier. How can you look at the current situation and say we have it easy, just because you also had it rough?
- This is a super shitty comment you wrote here dude. Gen Z isn't having life handed to them any more than we millennials did. If anything it's worse for them because inequality isn't getting any less striking.
  
  I'm a millennial who has a remote, work from home job, go ahead and shit on my career. Gen Z are our friends and allies in the end, they understand pretty well what we went through and they'll almost certainly go through worse because gestures vaguely at the state and trajectory of everything. The pain Olympics suck and someone's suffering doesn't invalidate yours.
  
  We gotta use the empathy the boomers didn't, we need to be better and not continue generational infighting or the only people who win are the rich.
- Also it’s mainly mommy and daddy buying them houses.
  
  How else can you afford a down payment? I'm a home owning millennial and I'll happily admit my house down payment was covered in large part by what was left in my college fund. No way I'd just have $50k laying around at age 30, otherwise
  
  And that was ten years ago, when housing was half the price it is today.
- What a sad way to see things.
- Graduated in 09. No mommy money here 🤷‍♂️.
  
  Quadruple 🤣. You realize when you say that to anyone educated that are just going to start nodding their head blankly right?