Yes I saw some shit the other day about, “such and such reporting that sales are drastically down since blah blah blah. Where did it all go wrong?”
Or “Gen whatever is choosing to part ways with blah blah blah. Here’s our guesses as to why!”
And it’s just, NOBODY HAS FUCKING MONEY!!! That’s it. That’s all it is. There’s no preference. There’s no secret wokeness. There’s no underlying meaning. We are all just fucking broke!
They took all the money, they refuse to give it back in wages, they jacked up the price, and we are tapping out. HOW THE FUCK IS THIS STILL A GODDAMN MYSTERY?!?!?!
The only way someone can still be confused about what’s going on is if they’re on purpose being ignorant about it because, “mah market indicators!”
We are all broke. That’s it, that’s the answer. Media needs to stop with the bullshit. The headline every day needs to be “The world is on fire by rich asshats and the rest of us are too fucking broke to do anything. We are all going to die painfully because of those rich asshats.” And that should be all that’s on the news every hour on the hour. The end.
Media needs to stop with the bullshit. The headline every day needs to be “The world is on fire by rich asshats and the rest of us are too fucking broke to do anything.
Who do you think owns the media?
The funniest headline I saw the other day was “millenials ditching the guest bedroom”. No asshole, they just can’t afford it, provided they could even afford a house at all.
The guest bedroom in our millennial home was my room until we got a kid now it’s the couch. Which we found on the side of the road
HOW THE FUCK IS THIS STILL A GODDAMN MYSTERY?!?!?!
You need to understand that the media is not your friend. They aren’t legitimately curious, they aren’t truth seekers. They are the propaganda machine at its finest.
COVID forced me to stay in my house for an extended period of time. I never ventured back out. Businesses are certainly not incentivizing me to do so.
As a result, I’ve watched my bank account grow at a rate it never has. In a nearly identical upward trend on the graph so have grown my depression and loneliness.
The outside world has become hostile in addition to expensive.
I’m glad I’m old and this is not my whole life ahead of me stage.
There are still good people, friend, anywhere you go. Especially if you do try volunteering as the other commenter suggested, and there are tons and tons of various organizations always looking for good people depending on what your interests are.
If you just want to meet people and have no specific hobbies you can try volunteering at a hospital. Even a few hours once a week or every other week might really help with the loneliness.
try volunteering
I have had some fast food in the last year, but each time I regret it and it gets longer in between.
For the same price I can order from a real restaurant and have leftovers.
Wait until you learn about cooking at home.
It’s still expensive and you have to have time. I still do it, love to cook. But sometimes I have no choice but frozen or fast food. Saying you don’t eat fast food, to me I just see privilege. Not that you said that, but it’s in this thread.
It is interesting to see the American context where food is so cheap. In my country eating out, even fast food, is the privilege. For me there’s no cheaper option than cooking at home, by a wide margin. It does take some planing. But I would go broke in a week if I ate a whole work week straight of fast food. It would be over half of my monthly income. Just one week of lunch only. So for me there’s no option, I have to cook at home or I would starve.
I’m in Aus, and I basically never eat a proper home cooked meal. I can get a hotdog for $3.50 and outside of super basic food like just rice, or oats, I can’t match that.
We don’t need to talk about how much I waste on drinks though, thats an entirely different problem.
You went “i need an example for something that is cheaper to buy than to cook” and you picked fucking hot dogs??
I’m an American but the $1 burgers from Maccas were a life saver down there. I used to get 2 a day while I hitchhiked. But y’all also have canned tuna with some great flavors!
I was told going down there that it was outrageously expensive. And I found that true when talking about non-essentials, headphones and quality clothes. But groceries were shockingly cheap the entire time I was down there. I could spend $30 on a burger and fries, or I could get a weeks worth of food from woolies or coles.
Even better, the corner store, the gas station really, was owned by coles and I could get milk and eggs (things I want fresh, in small batches) and a small selection of anything else I wanted for the exact same price as the larger stores! This freed me up to get veggies and fruit at the market and always have enough food unlike at home.
While in Australia, I had higher quality food for less money with more convenience. All while getting told by people back home how expensive it was when they visited. Maybe I had a different experience since I went for a year but I live in Seattle now and I miss having a corner store within a 5 minute walk that sold all my essentials.
Also Woolies has their mini stores in the big cities and those things are fire.
Haha!
I cook most meals at home, restaurants are for when I don’t have time or leftovers.
If you try to live your life as disconnected from evil megacorps as you can, it’s just a natural boycott.
To exist is to resist
Not trying to be clever but I really see it as to resist is to exist.
Otherwise we are subsumed and consumed.
I’m like a stubborn mule. The more you push the more likely I am to push back.
those fast food restaurants
Has anyone other than Wendy’s announced plans to do this?
Probably encompasses at least two Wendy’s restaurants
Isn’t this just blatant lying on the part of the fast food company? If you have a printed menu with prices on it, you can’t just bait and switch like this.
Wendys actually thinks they can treat CHEESEBURGERS like a valuable, limited commodity. I HAVE to buy gasoline because I have no choice. I don’t have to buy Wendy’s cheeseburgers. I can make my own damn cheeseburgers.
I wonder how long it will be before “Surge prices” become permanent price increases in certain neighborhoods?
People don’t like paying premium prices for average or crap food. But they like being exploited even less. Even if Wendys rescinds the surge pricing policy, those customers are never coming back. People will remember that Wendys tried to f*ck them over.
That’s easily solvable. “For informational purposes only. Prices subject to adjustment without notification.”
Soon restaurants will become stock exchanges, with people waiting on the price of chicken nuggets to drop.
My investment portfolio consists of my IRA, and these cups of limited edition McDonald’s szechuan sauce.
@NocturnalEngineer @octopus_ink „Nugget futures looking bright this morning with $SCRATCH down 4.69 cents.“
Most fast food places I see these days have screens, digital price displays that can change by the minute.
They’re working on that. Wendy’s is reportedly replacing all menus with screens.
Wendy’s is also investing in upgrading all their restaurants to digital menus by the end of 2025, though.
I’ve always said that it’s bullshit that those meals were so cheap in the first place. Their lobbyists paid off a bunch of politicians to make it so cheap. It shouldn’t have ever been as cheap as it was. That food is terrible for you in every way. It’ll probably be good for a lot of people to stop eating it so much. So i see this as a win win.
There’s a documentary “King Corn” that talks about how US government subsidies to farmers for growing corn have made it so inexpensive that it creates a surplus and prices that are too low relative to other foods. This resulted in the proliferation of corn being fed to cattle and other animals, which makes them less healthy to eat but fattens them for slaughter sooner. Also corn syrup is so cheap to make it made soft drinks less expensive. These are large reasons why fast food was so inexpensive and so bad for you. Also surplus corn and corn syrup led to the creation of a lot of unhealthy breakfast cereals which are marketed to kids.
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Yeah I think I like cooking for myself better anyways.
Ohhh! Lemmy is my people. We are small as a group but mighty in spirit. Sometimes I miss my weird little subs at Deadit and o go back and am reminded by the thirty point IQ drop across the board and I content myself to return to Lemmy and see exactly what I needed to see.
Off to the rest of my day.
This one meme satisfies so completely. Except that I may modify it to reflect my decade clean from fast food. Onward!
Rice cookers of the world unite!
Sometimes I get angry that there is nothing legal I can do to cause financial harm for certain companies. The quest that can happen is me stopping the consumption of their products, bit what is I want doing it in the first place?
This is not something I’ve heard of as someone who also doesn’t bother with fast food. Is this like, higher prices during rush hours or something?
Yep.
How Wendy’s thinks this will play out: 🤑
How it will actually play out:
"WHY DOES THIS BURGER COST 16.99 WHEN IT COST 6 DOLLARS 20 MINUTES AGO?" "Sir, this is a Wendy's" "Oh okay, well fuck you" [drives off]All they need is for enough people to not want to have wasted that time for nothing to buy it anyway to still make more money.
I’ve been boycotting all fast food chains and almost all big restaurant chains for…12 years now?
I’ve already been boycotting those places for over a decade for so many reasons.
