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Cars breakdown. Bodies become injured. The weather gets bad. Babysitters get ill or quit. Many things can leave a person temporarily or permanently unable to f
by mapontosevenths 11mo ago
Cars breakdown. Bodies become injured. The weather gets bad. Babysitters get ill or quit.
Many things can leave a person temporarily or permanently unable to fetch their own groceries. Many of those things happen to the poor more frequently. They at least have more severe consequences when a person is poor.
For example, a middle class person can just buy a new tire when one goes flat. A poor person may have to walk for a few paychecks.
- dmitrygr 11mo agoAnd your point is that before Instacart all those people died of hunger? Please!
- mapontosevenths 11mo agoNo. I was replying to a parent comment that said: > You just take the bus to the store, because you don’t pay extra money for someone to go there for you. You don’t have that money. They said this in response to a comment comparing the cost/benefit of instacart vs overpriced shrinkflation products from Dollar General. Neither alternative was starvation. The alternatives under discussion were Dollar General, Instacart, and the bus. I pointed out that the bus is often not an option, because the person who advocated it seemed to be using it to dismiss the fact that instacart groceries from a real grocery store are cheaper than buying them from a place like Dollar General which is objectively true.