What is the point of you anymore, fast food?
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Use. Your. Ovens.
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Use. Your. Ovens.
Don't have one, don't have space to have one, don't have money to get one, don't have any hope to ever get a place with one. Just like evergrowing amount of people.
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Don't have one, don't have space to have one, don't have money to get one, don't have any hope to ever get a place with one. Just like evergrowing amount of people.
Get a cook top. Even nice ones are like 100 bucks. Even induction ones and compatible pans are cheap. Five or six fast food visits and you could've bought enough to cook a massive variety of cheap meals.
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Get a cook top. Even nice ones are like 100 bucks. Even induction ones and compatible pans are cheap. Five or six fast food visits and you could've bought enough to cook a massive variety of cheap meals.
Five or six fast food visits and you could’ve bought enough
But this is the main problem. It's boots theory all over. For people living paycheck to paycheck the calculation of "if I don't eat for a week I can invest into myself" doesn't sound as appealing as for people who can afford to do a little bit of savings.
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Five or six fast food visits and you could’ve bought enough
But this is the main problem. It's boots theory all over. For people living paycheck to paycheck the calculation of "if I don't eat for a week I can invest into myself" doesn't sound as appealing as for people who can afford to do a little bit of savings.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Yea I agree with you from the perception angle. Being poor is a disgusting trap that the US should be fully ashamed that it still exists.
... Though mathematically, only a fool pays piecemeal for the PRODUCT of what they could do themselves for much, much less. A week of suffering to open up your food options is a strategic move more people should and can make.
If they were truly, completely unable to save money, they wouldn't be the audience going to fast food that we're talking about, as fast food is also beyond the truly poor's budget.
You can get A LOT more food from groceries than fast food for the same price, so if they're going to fast food and complaining about never being able to afford things... I have good news for them!
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Yea I agree with you from the perception angle. Being poor is a disgusting trap that the US should be fully ashamed that it still exists.
... Though mathematically, only a fool pays piecemeal for the PRODUCT of what they could do themselves for much, much less. A week of suffering to open up your food options is a strategic move more people should and can make.
If they were truly, completely unable to save money, they wouldn't be the audience going to fast food that we're talking about, as fast food is also beyond the truly poor's budget.
You can get A LOT more food from groceries than fast food for the same price, so if they're going to fast food and complaining about never being able to afford things... I have good news for them!
For a lot of people in America, a lot a lot, all those people whom I am talking about, there is no such choice.
They're in food deserts, they're overworked to death, they don't have skills, they don't have equipped kitchens, they don't have time to cook, they don't have energy to do it.
It's a bootstraps problem. How can I work good job and can happily spend an evening cooking a nice meal, but half of Americans can't? Well, obviously because they're lazy and probably stupid. Not because of the enormous privilege I have, one so big I can't even recognise the problems they're facing. -
For a lot of people in America, a lot a lot, all those people whom I am talking about, there is no such choice.
They're in food deserts, they're overworked to death, they don't have skills, they don't have equipped kitchens, they don't have time to cook, they don't have energy to do it.
It's a bootstraps problem. How can I work good job and can happily spend an evening cooking a nice meal, but half of Americans can't? Well, obviously because they're lazy and probably stupid. Not because of the enormous privilege I have, one so big I can't even recognise the problems they're facing.No one is asking people to spend all evening cooking gourmet meals. Many, many, MANY food items, like a toasted tuna sandwich, grilled cheese, mac n cheese, frying up some eggs, whipping up pre mixed pancakes, etc... They all take less time than it takes to drive to a fast food place, order food, and either drive back, or sit and eat it.
But noooo, let's choose to be a victim of our own circumstances instead of trying to improve things in the little ways we can control! You are so wise for rolling over and giving up.
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No one is asking people to spend all evening cooking gourmet meals. Many, many, MANY food items, like a toasted tuna sandwich, grilled cheese, mac n cheese, frying up some eggs, whipping up pre mixed pancakes, etc... They all take less time than it takes to drive to a fast food place, order food, and either drive back, or sit and eat it.
But noooo, let's choose to be a victim of our own circumstances instead of trying to improve things in the little ways we can control! You are so wise for rolling over and giving up.
because of the enormous privilege I have, one so big I can’t even recognise the problems they’re facing.
Well, I don't recognise a problem, it probably doesn't exist then.
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No one is asking people to spend all evening cooking gourmet meals. Many, many, MANY food items, like a toasted tuna sandwich, grilled cheese, mac n cheese, frying up some eggs, whipping up pre mixed pancakes, etc... They all take less time than it takes to drive to a fast food place, order food, and either drive back, or sit and eat it.
But noooo, let's choose to be a victim of our own circumstances instead of trying to improve things in the little ways we can control! You are so wise for rolling over and giving up.
I don't feel like I'm getting through you, but I recommend you watch this video, https://youtu.be/V-a9VDIbZCU. It's about very related problems, and the host explains the problem I'm describing in an entertaining way with visual examples.
