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Wait are you telling me a chicken dinner and juice is more attainable than a home?? Could that be why?

There’s a reason young people are travelling and using their savings on entertainment, we know we will never own. Not until we take housing by force, so what’s the point of saving? I can’t even save enough to keep up with interest. So yeah when I’m old I’ll be poor and the government will have to deal with me

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

GenZ complains about having so much debt and not enough income but they keep buying food! How can they expect to succeed when they waste their money so frivolously?!

..... That's what this headline reads like to me. How dare you buy food with the money you should be spending on the interest you owe to the owners of the country.

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Reading the actual article, the lunacy and delusion is real. You don't even get three paragraphs in and they're using a sales engineer's thoughts to represent young people as a whole.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

It’s depressing just how quickly and comprehensively Jeff Bezos has managed to destroy the WSJ. It used to be respected internationally, now it’s just a grubby little clickfarm.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Headline in two years: Gen Z'ers are splurging on food instead of giving their money to the rich.

[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Gen Z and millennials are splurging on breathing air.

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"GenZ struggling to survive in the lower levels of MegaCity5. Their blood is too low in iron to keep the immortal rich alive."

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 2 days ago

GenZ not eating nutritious meals is the leading cause of rejection for Soylent processing.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah that might be the most accurate to the blaming tone these kinds of articles write with and to what they will take from us.

Just need to jazz it up with some homemade slang to hide the sad bits and the immortal rich part.

"GenZ struggling in well stocked MegaCity5; "Fecal-de-Cal" diet blamed for lack of macro nutrients during their mandatory weekly Blood-Up donations."

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[–] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago

"Splurging“ on the absolute cheapest most preservative laiden meat available, cheapeer than fucking Spam, and Gut healthy jucis because they can't afford to go to a doctor.

Fucking ghouls.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Splurging on double ply toilet paper that is free of bark. Recklessly spending on biannual toothbrushs. carelessly using their lunch break to eat instead of adopting mico-hussles. foolishly agreeing to pay rent instead of taking money out of their grandfather's equity built trust fund to buy expansive rental properties.

why are they so bad with money?

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 210 points 3 days ago (14 children)

splurging on rotisserie chicken

You mean those cheap chickens they sell at grocery stores that can feed you for days?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 97 points 3 days ago

and gut-healthy juices

so they don't have to have healthcare. Don't forget that this is owned by Murdoch, a truly evil shit stain.

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 173 points 3 days ago (18 children)
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[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Splurging" on one of the most prolific loss leaders in grocery is certainly one way to say it. We're buying them because it's the cheapest way to eat

[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Up next: Gen Z splurging on costco hotdogs and mi goreng instant noodles.

[–] cv_octavio@piefed.ca 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Bitch, it is cheaper to buy the fully cooked rotisserie chicken at the grocery store than the UNCOOKED WHOLE CHICKEN.

Don't fucking tell me how to math, you assholes made corporations people, so I think we have very different ideas of what is important in this world.

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[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I make black bean based veggie patties; not because I'm a vegetarian, but because a can of black beans is cheap. I call them struggle burgers. I can't wait to be demonized for buying fucking beans. Fuck this timeline.

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Newspaper: Americans Eat Too Much Ultra processed food.

Same Newspaper: Look at these little shits splurging on veggies and chicken.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (4 children)

If you saved that $5 instead of wasting it on food every day, then in 275 years you could afford the average house!

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[–] JollyBrancher@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You mean the rotisserie chickens that are $5-6, compared to lunch meat being at 10-12/lb? Splurging on that rotisserie chicken purchase?

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is a reason we think boomers are out of touch.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They bought houses with high school diplomas for 6 walnuts. Why can't you kids do the same?

Try to explain to them that we will never be as weathly as they are and how we will receive 0 inheritance from them because they planned out how to spend their entire retirement savings not knowing what end of life care actually costs.

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That rotisserie chicken that I can stretch into like three to five meals, including making broth? That one?

[–] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Good ol' rotisserie chicken, rice, n beans. Sauce of choice. A legendary combination.

[–] sirscooter@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So we are not supposed to ....eat?

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The rich don't understand the purpose of food, having never missed a meal in their lives.

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[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 31 points 3 days ago

Splurging on the cheapest animal protein.. Wowee, really living it up in 2026!

[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The wall street journal aren't good journalists.

They cater towards rich people and as such:

  1. Grant a sense of superiority through highlighting financial disparity
  2. Portray news in terms of how they would affect rich people, like tax breaks being good for the economy (the economy being billionaires for wsj)

Nothing they write is objective

[–] ishartdoritos@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

They're not journalists at all.

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[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Most millennials are approaching 40. get off our balls WSJ you old fucks did this

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[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 72 points 3 days ago (6 children)

It doesn’t matter what food you eat, it’s still too good for you. How long until the articles about “splurging” on instant ramen come out?

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[–] alejandra@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (47 children)

It’s kind of wild how everyday groceries get framed as luxuries. Sometimes people are just trying to eat something convenient and affordable, not make a statement about their finances.

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 57 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You’ll never afford a house if you keep eating FOOD!

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[–] pentastarm@piefed.ca 41 points 3 days ago

"Millennials and Gen Z are splugering on clean water while trying to pay down their unbelievable debt from getting a 50 year mortgage on a cardboard box under the freeway overpass!!"

-WSJ in 5 years probably

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