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Definitely has nothing to do with sky-rocketing food prices in our capitalist hellscape.

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[–] [email protected] 203 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I like how these are always new hip trends.

Gen Z is super into living with lots of roommates!
Gen Z absolutely loves not having children!
Gen Z new craze is having sleep for dinner!

[–] [email protected] 108 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It happened to us millennials, and now it's happening to you. Fucking boomer clickbait

[–] [email protected] 63 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I wonder what’s next

Working Four Jobs: Learn All About Gen Alpha’s Favorite Concept!

Why Gen Alpha is Obsessed With Eating Their Roommates’ Remains

New Study Finds that Gen Alpha’s Favorite Emotion is 'Unfathomable Despair'!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why aren't you buying diamonds?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I spent all my money on candles

[–] affiliate 1 points 8 months ago

no diamond funko pop yet

[–] NegativeInf 1 points 8 months ago

Fuck diamonds! I want a man that gives me a fucking GAGG Lumogarnet damn it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

🎙️🪗Burn it all

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Cuz these economists look at wealth in aggregate, but look at behavior by market segment.

Asset prices have been skyrocketing. That only really helps people who have assets, but it still brings up the average enough to make the economy look it's doing great overall even despite the consumer price inflation.

So if you see that young adults are moving back in with their parents while living in an economy that is, in aggregate, "the strongest it's ever been"... you can only explain it as a matter of preference.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Or alternatively

Food now 2nd highest expense after rent for young people after pandemic supply chain disruption and industry consolidation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Theres a way out you know.

I mean, two ways out, but if you kill yourself without taking a cop or oligarch with you; you're not helping.

[–] antidote101 67 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Eating to continue living, now considered the primary "luxury" of this generation! Oh joy!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

Insert coins to continue

[–] dojan 5 points 8 months ago

Given that having somewhere to do said living and eating was a luxury I’m not at all surprised they’d call this a luxury too.

[–] MrJameGumb 50 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Look at that 40 year old over there foolishly squandering $8 on a dozen eggs!!! LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS CHILDREN!!! YOU DON'T NEED SUCH LUXURIES!!!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] MrJameGumb 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

WHY ARE YOU SPENDING A FORTUNE ON HIGH END DESIGNER PRODUCTS LIKE MILK???

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If this ends up bankrupting McD I'll be happy

[–] Rognaut 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I personally boycott McDs due to skyrocketing prices for the same shitty ultra processed garbage, among other reasons.

The food is no good, the service sucks, the prices suck. McDs just sucks.

[–] Gingerlegs 4 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Seeds are ~~trademarked~~ patented

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Patented actually thanks Bayer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What they want you to think: "Groceries are the new in thing"

The truth: Food is expensive

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

You know we need a new youth trend: organized gangs who steal bread and stab the fuck out of anyone who tries to stop them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I mean for what it’s worth, as my income has gone up I’ve chosen more expensive ingredients for cooking. Usually those things are more local anyway, like at my local farmers market or food co-op.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Same here, but within the past year or so we've had to reverse course so we can stay within our grocery budget.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Here's hoping pay goes up and grocery prices stagnate

[–] JJROKCZ 3 points 8 months ago

I’m not gen Z but I did similar as my earnings went up as a millennial. I’d rather make my own food with better ingredients for the sake of my health than buy “luxury” goods that are often just overpriced trash

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I've got a wife and a kid and I will say that I live in butt-fuck nowhere where everything is cheaper than anywhere else, however groceries are still getting way too expensive.

[–] darthelmet 6 points 8 months ago

“Spends more on groceries than on other categories” so they’re poor. You can just say that. It turns out your money needs to go to keeping you alive before it goes to other things, and if you don’t have much money left after that, you can’t exactly spend more than you spent on food on other things.

Imagine being a consultant and get paid to write completely pointless things like that.

[–] Deestan 4 points 8 months ago

Gen Z ruining luxury car market by splurging on housing and basic nutrition

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why give this terrible article more clicks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

It deserves the attention and ridicule. It needs to know it did bad and should feel bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I don't think a human wrote this steaming hot piece of horsedung

[–] venusaur 2 points 8 months ago

Gen Z spending much less on flat screen TV’s than previous generations.