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It's better to skip a meal now than take out a loan that makes you skip two meals later. If you can't afford to buy a sandwich, just buy the peanut butter for l
by gowld 5y ago
It's better to skip a meal now than take out a loan that makes you skip two meals later.
If you can't afford to buy a sandwich, just buy the peanut butter for less and have plenty to eat.
Also, survival food is cheap as dirt. No one starves due to food prices.
- gruez 5y agoNot sure why this is getting downvoted. I suspect it's due to the last sentence, but getting 2000 calories of food for less than $2 is very doable: https://www.upstart.com/blog/lowest-cost-per-calorie-foods https://www.upstart.com/blog/lowest-cost-per-calorie-foods 2. White rice – $0.41 per 2,000 calories 7. Peanut butter – $1.25 per 2,000 calories 8. Whole milk – $1.37 per 2,000 calories 9. Pinto beans – $1.39 per 2,000 calories 13. Eggs – $1.61 per 2,000 calories Add in a few extra dollars for fruits/vegetables and you got a balanced meal for less than 1 hour of the federal minimum wage.
- eurasiantiger 5y agoThis doesn’t help those dependent on illicit substances, which tend to become a necessary coping mechanism once financial disenfranchisement becomes constant survival stress and days sort of start blurring together because of the PTSD symptoms. Have you ever HAD to survive on that kind of diet?
- imtringued 5y agoYou know eating until you are obese is a much cheaper coping mechanism than street drugs.
- netizen-936824 5y agoI would argue being obese is far worse for your health than most, if not all, "street drugs"
- gruez 5y agoSounds like the problem is "illicit substances" and/or "PTSD symptoms", not high food prices.
- mulmen 5y agoAre you sure the problem isn’t the financial disenfranchisement?
- eurasiantiger 5y agoThat is exactly the narrative Nixon’s administration used to shift the public’s perception of black and anti-war communities when outlawing drugs to legitimize targeted harassment. Blame the patsies and display them as an opposite of a red herring. Never acknowledge the problem. Think about on which side of history you take your stand.
- gruez 5y agoI'm baffled as to how we went from "if you have substance abuse issues you'll have trouble feeding yourself even when food is cheap" to "Think about on which side of history you take your stand".
- eurasiantiger 5y agoSubstance abuse requires a lot of money because drugs are illegal. Therefore substance abusers tend to become financially disenfranchised, which limits their agency and social mobility. Drugs are illegal because white supremacist hate- and war-mongers made them illegal to further their hate- and war-mongering. Do you really not see the connection?
- heliodor 5y agoDisenfranchise: deprive of a right or privilege What right or privilege are you saying people have with regards to money?
- jjoonathan 5y agoYou need to price in the infrastructure for acquisition, storage, and prep (once you do, you see why GP mentioned peanut butter). Also, one has to price in the nontrivial hoops we make poor people go through to get their minimum wage or food stamps. Yeah, it's more than possible to survive -- and people do -- but why are these "survival cost" calculations always so dishonest?
- gruez 5y ago>but why are these "survival cost" calculations always so dishonest? Because GP mentioned a specific claim, which is food prices? If you're malnourished, and rent costs $1500/month but you can feed yourself on $150, how much are food prices to blame for that?