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Re:DoorDash S-1 by lotsofpulp on Friday November 13, 2020 @11:52AM (#25084199)
I prefer to use non tax advantaged savings (aka emergency fund amounts) as a more accurate metric for being able to afford luxuries. If you’re living close to paycheck to paycheck , I would say you can’t afford to pay $25 per person per meal, regardless if you earn $100k or $50k.

My overarching point being that if people can barely afford the current VC subsidized food delivery prices, what is the possible market size for non VC subsidized food delivery?

Edit: I don’t see a source for 42M Americans having incomes over $100k per year. This source says 15.5% of US households had incomes over $100k, and at 128M households, that is 20M households with incomes over $100k.

https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/p60/270...

Re:DoorDash S-1 by rafram on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:41PM (#25085013)
If you’re making $100k but have no savings, maybe your money is being spend on trips to Chili’s. Of course it’s not literally that, but an individual having no savings but high income doesn’t mean that they can’t spend money - it means that they do.
Re:DoorDash S-1 by delfinom on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:45PM (#25085062)
Let's put it this way.

I went to lunch with a girl who worked at a Bestbuy. She spent the entire time trying out figure out how the a group of current BestBuy employees nearby at the restaurant could afford the food (overpriced $20 meal) for such a causal meal.

My former landlord financed everything she ever did, including her damn electronics she would throw away or break in a year. She was a widow, on social security and was cheated out of a pension. I have no idea how her monthly payments weren't thousands per month.

Americans fucking suck at financial literacy and trap themselves in debt pits. Alternatively, people spend themselves silly without stepping back and realizing their savings is staying at $0 by living larger than they should if they want savings to go up.