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[–] rockSlayer 153 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I already don't eat breakfast and I'm still poor, what now WSJ???

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Economists hate this one SECRET HACK you can do to avoid poordom. Among investmentology specialists it is a well guarded secret that switching to a making money framework instead of the popular losing money framework has a long term net positive effect on your private economy.

[–] rockSlayer 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Of course, the answer was right in front of me! I just need to pull on those bootstraps harder

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[–] Cybermass 94 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Of course this comes from the wall street journal lmao straight propaganda

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not religious, but I do feel like writing something like this is comparable to selling your soul to the devil. The person who wrote this abandoned their humanity for capitalists and they should be ashamed.

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[–] Drusenija 69 points 1 year ago

Tomorrow's headline, "Millenials are single handedly killing the breakfast industry".

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (4 children)

β€œInstead of seeking happiness, save money with misery”

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My prescriptions cost so much too. Maybe I should just stop taking my antidepressants and see how it rides out. .

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pro-tip: You can save money on living expenses if you just live in a cardboard box by the roadside and die.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Please not by the roadside, noone wants to see your progress to absolute freedom.

[–] phoneymouse 16 points 1 year ago

That’s illegal in many places. Illegal to be on a roadside, illegal to kill yourself.

[–] TwoGems 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Maybe we should eat billionaires instead

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That can't be sanitary. I mean, who knows what kind of drugs these people take, what kinds of places they have been. People get worried about eating animals that have been given antibiotics, so I can't imagine that billionaire-meat will get approved for human consumption any time soon. We should probably just euthanize the poor souls and recycle the remains... \s

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[–] StewartGilligan 57 points 1 year ago

To not get murdered, die right now...

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Aside from being tone deaf, I think this is bad advice. Common breakfast foods are fairly cheap comparatively and I'm pretty sure most nutritionists recommend eating something for breakfast to kickstart your metabolism. If I were skipping/reducing a meal, it would be lunch.

[–] ikidd 27 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Gluconeogenesis does that well enough.

Plenty of people don't eat breakfast. I'll be nauseous for the rest of the day if I have anything before noon.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

The Wall Street Journal is just shitposting for rich people.

[–] mashbooq 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe the WSJ has a point; we could save a lot of money if we stopped buying breakfast and just ate the WSJ staff instead

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Foodborne illness 🀒

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They act like most of us even have time to make breakfast like we're living in some 90's sitcom

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's people like you that make me look like an asshole. Every morning I wake up at 3am to squeeze orange juice, make sausage gravy, biscuits, waffles, 5 omelettes, 40 pancakes, 6lbs of bacon, hash browns, buttered toast, and right after my son comes down the stairs, puts his ball cap on, grabs a single piece of bacon, heads out the door in a rush, I chase him down with a PB&J he inevitably always forgets. But it's not like I want to waste 40lbe of food per day. Some days I just want my son to sit down and eat the 40lbs of food I prepared. He may think I'm overbearing but I'm really overcaring.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"We know life is Hard, but have you tried Ultra Hard by skipping the most important meal of the day and starting out famished?"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Off topic but I don't think breakfast is any more or less important than a meal any other time of the day. Most days I only eat one big meal around dinnertime and maybe have a few bites of some snack throughout the day. I've been like that for years now it started from doing 12 hour construction shifts where I'd just work all day with a coffee and maybe an apple or something then eat a big meal once I was home. I don't do construction anymore but the way I eat stuck with me. It's probably worth pointing out that I'm very fit and a healthy bodyweight (5'10 152lbs) and I don't suffer any negative effects from living like this. I'd say I'm healthier than 90% of the people I know.

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[–] Anonymousllama 35 points 1 year ago

No need to skip meals, there's plenty of rich to eat

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you don't have enough money for bread, buy cake instead!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Your life is hard? Add malnourishment and see if that helps.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"And while you're at it, do you really NEED to sleep?"

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[–] Haha 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe I should get more money and live a normal life yea?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried not being poor?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I hope whoever wrote this trips in their bathroom and gets a severe brain injury.

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[–] superfes 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I already skip breakfast, gonna need additional money saving tips...

[–] Brickhead92 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No worries, I've got you. Skip lunch to save additional money.

[–] kenblu24 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You may not believe it but you can skip dinner too

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Sleep for dinner again? But I had that last night!

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nO bOdY iS bUyInG aNytHinG!!!!

[–] MrVilliam 18 points 1 year ago

17 industries that millennials are killing; #11 will make you shit in your own mouth in anger!

[–] KaiReeve 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Skip 1 meal to save money

Skip 2 meals to lose weight

Skip all 3 meals and end world hunger

It's just that simple.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

The headline is as valid as "just stop being poor"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's fun and games, but lately I've seen 2 colleagues eating from the office kitchen the leftovers of extra bread and cream cheese, instead of ordering. It's actually sad.

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[–] MisterFrog 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeahh intermittent fasting bro πŸ’ͺ /s

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[–] samus12345 18 points 1 year ago

I thought this was a joke, but no, it's real.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha the poors should just eat less food! Problem solved!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I mean, intermittent fasting is legit but not to save money... Ffs...

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