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For people who don't have a dollar or two more the difference between McDonalds and 5 Guys is negligible.
by dopamean 10y ago
For people who don't have a dollar or two more the difference between McDonalds and 5 Guys is negligible.
- VLM 10y agoUnfortunately having once been a starving student, and also being well off financially, the only thing worse than being well off and having an awful burger for dinner, was being poor and not only having an awful burger but knowingly blowing my valuable and hard to replace $5 on it. Why now rather than saving up two more dollars to go to Culvers, I'm going to have to save up $7 ... How middle/upper class people think poor people think, and how poor people actually think, are often two different things. Also middle/upper always confuse poor vs working class along the "everyone beneath me is a prole and they're all alike" model. McDonalds is more a working class place than a poor people place. Working class people don't think in terms of "saving up" for $5 because they have an income stream and McD simply fits that budget. They might "save up" for and plan ahead for $20 at a sit down dinner. But not McD. Its affordably cheap for them. I guess what I'm talking about is the difference between urge based spontaneous spending for working class or above, vs planned saving up for actual poor people.