> Yeah, there’s a real failure to understand that sugar and junk ... remains the most cost effective source of calories. This is usually the point where someon

> Yeah, there’s a real failure to understand that sugar and junk ... remains the most cost effective source of calories. This is usually the point where someone interjects some examples of cheap foods that poor people ought to just buy - because everyone, everywhere has trivial access to their middle class shopping experience. But even past that: Being poor also means subject to ceaseless Denial of Resources Attacks. Resources here meaning funds, attention, energy, ability, hope, will and anything one needs to raise one's station. Hacking a meal plan struggles to rise to the top of a priority stack when one has dozens of problems in a critical state. And because of poverty, it requires 10x the steps to solve those issues than non-poor people face. source: decade of hunger-level poverty with kids