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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

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.
    - JaimeThompson 4y ago
      > I'm not going to play oppression olympics with you. That wasn't my point. Honestly please take a look at your interaction with me and reflect on it, it isn't necessary to engage in such a hostile fashion. You have read a lot into what I have written that simply isn't there. You have a pleasant rest of your day.
      - notch656a 4y ago
        You have read a lot into what I have written that simply isn't there. It's not a good look to clam up and play the victim when called out on your presumptuous and contradictory statements, including your assuming the economic background of someone based on a short dialogue. Remember just one post ago you found it completely valid to retort about how I "haven't actually been poor like that" and how you have. Please take a look at your interaction with me and reflect on it, and think to yourself about how you can be less presumptuous. >You have a pleasant rest of your day. Likewise!

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.
  - JaimeThompson 4y ago
    > I'm not going to play oppression olympics with you. That wasn't my point. Honestly please take a look at your interaction with me and reflect on it, it isn't necessary to engage in such a hostile fashion. You have read a lot into what I have written that simply isn't there. You have a pleasant rest of your day.
    - notch656a 4y ago
      You have read a lot into what I have written that simply isn't there. It's not a good look to clam up and play the victim when called out on your presumptuous and contradictory statements, including your assuming the economic background of someone based on a short dialogue. Remember just one post ago you found it completely valid to retort about how I "haven't actually been poor like that" and how you have. Please take a look at your interaction with me and reflect on it, and think to yourself about how you can be less presumptuous. >You have a pleasant rest of your day. Likewise!