France offers each cyclist €50 for bike repairs once lockdown ends

Re:France offers each cyclist €50 for bike repairs once lock... by smeyer on Friday May 01, 2020 @01:15PM (#23044275)

I agree that $50 shouldn't be trivialized. That being said, in America that's well below the standard for a month of groceries for one person (unless they're eating all of their meals out or something like that). Here[0] are the USDA food plans with budgets for "food at home". The cheapest category is "thrifty", and even there they budget about $100 per month for a one year old through about $190 for an adult male (those numbers increase by about 20% if it's a one person household rather than a contribution to a family budget).

I don't know how those numbers might compare in France, and there are obviously cheaper parts of the world, but the person trivializing $50 might well be in America where that's closer to a week's grocery than a month's for one person.

[0] https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/media/fil...

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Re:France offers each cyclist €50 for bike repairs once lock... by zxexz on Friday May 01, 2020 @01:58PM (#23044729)

Thanks for the link! Perhaps I should have said $50 is a sizable chunk of a monthly grocery budget.

For about a year when I was 19ish I managed to get by on $50-ish/month for groceries, by mainly living off rice and beans, with some eggs and other items thrown in. I don't know if that counts though because I got a lot of goods from dumpsters as well; Whole Foods throws out a lot :O

Now I'm way less frugal when it comes to groceries, probably closer to 3 or 4 times that. And I would still take that $50 for bike repair.

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Re:France offers each cyclist €50 for bike repairs once lock... by ORioN63 on Friday May 01, 2020 @03:28PM (#23045619)

Not sure why you were downvoted.

When I was in college, I also didn't have much more than 50€ for groceries. I did fine, but I also lived in walking distance to everything. Not everyone is as lucky.

Do people think poor people don't commute? 50$/€ is def. a lot for a myriad of people.

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