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[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 67 points 1 year ago

Eat the rich. This solves two problems.

  1. Food
  2. Now the rich are gone you can redistribute the wealth and start fixing this shitty system.
[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago
[-] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Sensible, even

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I like this proposal.

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

Whaaa-? But i thought over half yall voted for Trump because he would for sure lower grocery prices??

[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

Trump even said it himself. "We won on groceries". Seems like he only cares about cheating at golf and saving pedophiles

[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

I pay between $75 - $150 a week for groceries as a single dude that only shops for himself. On a monthly basis that's my highest expense besides rent at about $300 - $400. That's how much my parents used to spend to shop for a family of 7 back in like 2010. The federal minimum wage back then was $7.25 an hour and even then it was still a struggle. And here we are 15 years later and the federal minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour.

[-] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

Back when the federal minimum was raised to $7.25 you could still feed 3 people well at a cheaper restaurant for $15. Now I dont think you could feed one person well for $15 at any of the same kind of restaurant

A few days ago I saw a story of a woman making $3 an hour plus tips at waffle house, where the average tip is probably like $2 a person. In 2025. How the fuck is that woman surviving whatsoever? The amount of normal everyday hardworking people who will be impacted by the SNAP cuts is going to be enormous. Especially with everything quickly becoming 2x what it cost 6 months ago

[-] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's crazy working as a server now. $2.15/hour plus tips. You have to be somewhere that makes good tips. The law only guarantees that you will make at least $7.25/hour and the restaurant is supposed to pay you to that average only if tips don't get you to minimum wage.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

I am in roughly the same boat.

$600 for rent + utils, cheapest, roach tier studio I could find, but I somehow lucked out and got a management team that, though they're not exactly flush with cash, they do genuinely give a damn about the stuff they can actually afford to handle, throw out the dipshit trouble maker types pretty quick.

So, slightly higher rent, but I manage to get my food costs down to roughly $250 a month, so its about the same total monthly spend.

But, yeah, holy fuck, if the min wage had kept up with housing costs, so an FT min wagie could afford a studio, 1/3 rent to income rule?

It'd be between $30 and $35 an hour.

That's how fucked this all is, the US median wage is roughly what the minimum wage should be, if you want a ... basically functioning society where 2/3rds (thats about the paycheck to paycheck % now) of people are not one disaster away from becoming homeless.

So, of course, instead, its now literally illegal to be homeless, and Trump wants to build concentration camps.

People are either gonna let this happen, or they're gonna ... perform an executive override on the situation.

[-] hunter@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

If I may ask, where are you that rent is 600? Or is this a roomate situation?

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hahaha...ha.

Hah.

...

Short answer: South Dakota.

Long answer:

Following a uh, calvacade of compounding catastrophes, several years ago now, I ended up homeless, roughed it for a good long while, got the shit kicked out of me in one way or another on roughly a biweekly basis, got held hostage by a fentanyl addict for a week once, barely escaped that alive, almost froze to death, almost died of heat stroke...

... eventually got SSDI to kick in, after continuously struggling to stop having all my ids and paperwork stolen from me...

...and I correctly deduced that Trump would win, and the big west coast city I used to live in would soon be cracking down hard on the homeless, as well as Oops! no more funding for homeless shelters that are already at max capacity...

So, when the SSDI kicked in, I got on a bus and headed as far as my those bus wheels and my broken body could carry me, which ended up being South Dakota.

Pretty fucking low CoL, and I am still just full time doing PT to recover from all my injuries, so... not like I'm missing much by not living somewhere else.

Immensely ironically, this shit ass roach motel, that was literally a roach motel and now just... does 6 month, year, month to month leases?

Only place I have ever lived in my entire life that just came with an AC unit.

My 'long term' plan is somewhere in Minnesota... by every study and composite map I can see, its basically the best combo of a decently blue state, with decent CoL, and lots of fresh water, and a pretty low expected increase in climate disasters.

In summary: God Bless America.

Eggs are back at $7-10/dz in the Boston metro area :D

What’s your eggscuse this time, orangeboi

[-] Carvex@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

His excuse is he couldn’t give less of a fuck about you or any of the other poors. Somehow a billionaire supposedly cares about the same things we do

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh I know. I am just curious how the cult is going to somehow spin this into being the fault of the “communist democrat an-tee-fuh Nazis”, because I’m sure they will try to.

[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago

Almost literally, the moment Trump was sworn in as president, the same exact folks who spent the prior 8 months of their lives blaming Biden for the high cost of eggs suddenly had an epiphany that the president does not directly control the price of eggs. And then when the president DID specifically and directly affect the price of groceries as a result of tariffs, those same people suddenly insist that grocery prices are based on complex and rapidly changing global socioeconomic phenomenon that cannot be predicted nor controlled and besides this is still Biden's economy because it was so broken that Trump hasn't been able to fix it yet (even though he promised to have it all sorted out in a timeline of days).

They live in a separate reality, void of fact and logic, and I honestly have not figured out a way to reason with that. As wiser folks have said much more eloquently than I could, you cannot reason people out of something they did not reason themselves into.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its a death cult.

Just, full stop, MAGA is a death cult, same as Jim Jones or Heaven's Gate.

Big death cult? Popular death cult, takes over the government?

Fascism.

For all the sociological, political, economic complexities and nuance...

It really does basically just boil down to those being pretty much the same thing, at different scales.

Good luck reasoning with or expecting reason from death cult members.

They are the zombie apocalpyse, fucking broken brains, really only fully functional at the limbic level, the rest of the brain is a confused mush of near infinite levels of reality denial, motivated reasoning, and cognitive dissonance.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

This has been going on for years. Keeps getting worse like everything else we depend on for a decent stable life but not to worry the White House is building a 200 million dollar ballroom.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Should have thought about that when every Democrat was telling you that Trump and his tariff plans and project 25 was going to screw the average American at the grocery store.

Sorry but Americans, including myself, get what we collectively voted for.

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Please love yourself enough to realize that you don’t deserve collective punishment.

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

the vast majority of US adults didn't vote against Trump

curious

They're getting what they voted for.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

Unless they didn't and the tech billionaires got their money's worth.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Haha not me!

I'm old-money poor, grew up broke.

This is just a reversion to the mean.

All these fools thought they weren't poor this whole time, blew out the backs of their credit card balances with endless hot loads of usless garbage purchases... tch tch tch, not how you do it, doesn't end well.

[-] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Gettin tired posting the surprised pika face meme. Think I will take a break.

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

The plan is working

[-] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

i got 2 bags of groceries at cub yesterday and it was 180$.

there was meat in there. sure. but like....damn.

[-] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Come to south america. Food is cheap af.

But just the girls. Don't send us astronauts, engineers, doctors and other stuff like the venezuelans did.

[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

i would recommend just stop eating

[-] CircaV@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

Murikkkans: you made your bed now lie in it.

Signed: the Rest of the world

[-] quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I guarantee you this is happening wherever you live, just in a different flavor.

The billionaires are parasites on the entire planet, not just the US.

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