Re:Dollar Tree says US$1.25 price point to become new standard
by ingenieros on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:31PM
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The op mentioned "$100 is plenty to afford groceries at a grocery store." Surely some of that could go into things like: salt and garlic, no?
You also talk about "the average person" which makes me seriously wonder what you mean by this? What is an average person in your world view? I've had the opportunity to live in 3 different continents and I'd be hard pressed to describe an average person to you. Perhaps you are right and my views are a bit utilitarian, but I can assure you that my soul is not crushed whenever I sit down to eat a plate of moros y cristianos.
Re:Dollar Tree says US$1.25 price point to become new standard
by HWR_14 on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @01:18PM
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At $100/week you can trivially have have chicken every dinner. You made it $30/week to justify rice and beans as the sole meal. Which makes it harder to purchase addons. Especially if that works out to $7.50/person/week for a family of 4. Just over $1.07/person/day doesn't leave a lot of extra money.
Re:Dollar Tree says US$1.25 price point to become new standard
by imtringued on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @04:53AM
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>and enjoying the taste of it is a pretty big factor for if they want to eat it every day or not!
Yeah and people only enjoy the loudest music because they have to turn the volume down which makes everything else sound worse...
Sugar is like that, as you get used to the sugar rush, everything else tastes worse but only relatively worse, not absolutely worse.
And again, comparing subsisting on "$30 of rice and beans" is a completely different proposition to "nations which rely on plant based diets": people in these nations are not eating unflavored rice and beans every day.