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14 per week might be the difference between eating ok and not eating.

by JaimeThompson 4y ago

notch656a 4y ago
You can eat "ok" on $2 a day?
- JaimeThompson 4y ago
  Yes if you are careful, but that isn't what I said. You are assuming that the base spent on food is 0 + 2 when that wasn't what I said.
  - notch656a 4y ago
    >difference between eating ok and not eating. >difference > eating ok > not eating If you're not eating it follows you're eating $0 worth of food. So it is what you said, unless you're implying someone is spending money on food without eating any of it. I'm interested in the meals you suggest that you think are "eating ok" while maintaining the nutrition to work, $2 all in per day (food cost + transport to buy the food + cost to cook the food + depreciation on any utinsils / cookware). Also keep in mind many poor people live in a food desert so if you're counting on discount food you're gonna need a bus ticket or a hell of a long walk once in awhile. As an aside, it's worth noting if your suggestion is true and one can truly eat ok on $2 a day, then the median medical debt holder who spends say $4 a day on food can easily pay off their loans in a few years following your cooking advice. You just came up with a way for them to produce $2 / day without any additional income.
    - JaimeThompson 4y ago
      There are multiple meals per day if one has to skip some of them to make ends meat then they are "not eating" those meals. It's a bit more complicated than you are making it out to be, it would not hurt to remember you are talking about fellow human beings and not just numbers in a spreadsheet. As for inexpensive ways to eat please see https://old.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/ https://old.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/
      - notch656a 4y ago
        Got it, the typical person can browse reddit, come up with an "ok" diet for $2 day, saving them $3+ a day vs what even the typical working class person spends on food. And simultaneously you believe it is achievable to save this $3+ per day eating following your reddit suggestion while somehow not being able to use $2 of those $3+ to pay your medical bills?
        JaimeThompson 4y ago
        Do you find that being this uncharitable is an effective way to communicate with others? You haven't actually been poor like that in the US. That isn't a question, it is a statement. I have as have others I know so yes even a few dollars per day can make/break the budget.
        notch656a 4y ago
        >You haven't actually been poor like that in the US. That isn't a question, it is a statement. I have as have others I know so yes even a few dollars per day can make/break the budget. I don't know how poor you have been or are. And you don't know how poor I have been either. I'm not going to play oppression olympics with you. I have been homeless, sleeping in ditches and parks before, living off of minimum wage day labor. Even back then, if I needed $2 I simply worked an extra 15 minutes moving drywall at construction sites or whatever. Those who can't work may end up buying snacks with their foodstamp card and hawking them to high schoolers walking to school or something (as I see many homeless do near my house). There are very few people who aren't already covered by medicaid/medicare who are incapable of coming up with $2 / day somehow, and if they are they are the extreme case. Again even _drug addicts_ in my neighborhood, while high out of their minds, somehow manage to come up with $20/day for their fentanyl habit and that doesn't even cover the rest of their necessities. And as an aside, I'm not buying the argument that being broke somehow makes you more of an expert on how to budget. The poor in this country are notoriously victims of sub-par education which sadly leaves many of them poorly situated to navigate managing their own economic future. If I want budgeting advice I'd much rather ask say a guy who started his own restaurant vs some random broke person on the street.

14 per week might be the difference between eating ok and not eating.

notch656a 4y ago

You can eat "ok" on $2 a day?

JaimeThompson 4y ago
Yes if you are careful, but that isn't what I said. You are assuming that the base spent on food is 0 + 2 when that wasn't what I said.
- notch656a 4y ago
  >difference between eating ok and not eating. >difference > eating ok > not eating If you're not eating it follows you're eating $0 worth of food. So it is what you said, unless you're implying someone is spending money on food without eating any of it. I'm interested in the meals you suggest that you think are "eating ok" while maintaining the nutrition to work, $2 all in per day (food cost + transport to buy the food + cost to cook the food + depreciation on any utinsils / cookware). Also keep in mind many poor people live in a food desert so if you're counting on discount food you're gonna need a bus ticket or a hell of a long walk once in awhile. As an aside, it's worth noting if your suggestion is true and one can truly eat ok on $2 a day, then the median medical debt holder who spends say $4 a day on food can easily pay off their loans in a few years following your cooking advice. You just came up with a way for them to produce $2 / day without any additional income.
  - JaimeThompson 4y ago
    There are multiple meals per day if one has to skip some of them to make ends meat then they are "not eating" those meals. It's a bit more complicated than you are making it out to be, it would not hurt to remember you are talking about fellow human beings and not just numbers in a spreadsheet. As for inexpensive ways to eat please see https://old.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/ https://old.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/
    - notch656a 4y ago
      Got it, the typical person can browse reddit, come up with an "ok" diet for $2 day, saving them $3+ a day vs what even the typical working class person spends on food. And simultaneously you believe it is achievable to save this $3+ per day eating following your reddit suggestion while somehow not being able to use $2 of those $3+ to pay your medical bills?
      - JaimeThompson 4y ago
        Do you find that being this uncharitable is an effective way to communicate with others? You haven't actually been poor like that in the US. That isn't a question, it is a statement. I have as have others I know so yes even a few dollars per day can make/break the budget.
        notch656a 4y ago
        >You haven't actually been poor like that in the US. That isn't a question, it is a statement. I have as have others I know so yes even a few dollars per day can make/break the budget. I don't know how poor you have been or are. And you don't know how poor I have been either. I'm not going to play oppression olympics with you. I have been homeless, sleeping in ditches and parks before, living off of minimum wage day labor. Even back then, if I needed $2 I simply worked an extra 15 minutes moving drywall at construction sites or whatever. Those who can't work may end up buying snacks with their foodstamp card and hawking them to high schoolers walking to school or something (as I see many homeless do near my house). There are very few people who aren't already covered by medicaid/medicare who are incapable of coming up with $2 / day somehow, and if they are they are the extreme case. Again even _drug addicts_ in my neighborhood, while high out of their minds, somehow manage to come up with $20/day for their fentanyl habit and that doesn't even cover the rest of their necessities. And as an aside, I'm not buying the argument that being broke somehow makes you more of an expert on how to budget. The poor in this country are notoriously victims of sub-par education which sadly leaves many of them poorly situated to navigate managing their own economic future. If I want budgeting advice I'd much rather ask say a guy who started his own restaurant vs some random broke person on the street.