Where are these bigger paychecks?
What's a vacation? 
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my vacations consist of binging pirated shows on public holidays 
where's that krugman post about how if you don't count food, housing, and healthcare then inflation isn't that bad
It's been dunked on a bunch, but here's the submission with the most comments
https://hexbear.net/post/1040996
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Screenshot of a Tweet from Paul Krugman (Recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, New York Times columnist) dated September 15, 2023. The Tweet reads:
An inflation update: in the past I've focused on a measure that excludes lagging shelter and used cars as well as food and energy. Just to note that it adds to the evidence that inflation has been largely defeated
It is accompanied by a line graph titled "CPI ex food, energy, shelter and used cars" with months from January 2018 to May 2023 on the x-axis and "6 month growth, annualized" on the y-axis. Inflation hovers around 1% to 2% up until March 2020, at which point it drops precipitously to around -1.5%. It climbs steadily to a peak of 7% around April 2022, then descends at about the same rate to 2% in September 2023 (the time of the tweet).
It's so idiotic, you'd think it was a bit
"If you exclude all the things necessary to live, the economy is doing great"
Which one
I asked a smart investor guy to break down young people's spending into this pie graph: 50% rent/ 50% food, wow they're not saving money!
Blaming the poors' luxury spending for their situation in:
2007: Cellular phones
2024: Cellular respiration
My fridge is running low.
Bring me the head of whoever wrote this so I may feast.
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Wow, you need groceries? Look at these ballers out here
"Do not, my young ones, become addicted to food, for it will take hold of you and you will resent it's absence!" - Immortan Joe Brandon
Ah yes, probably from the same school of thought that gave us "The young should stop eating out and having avocado toast", and then when covid hit, "You should eat out to help out and have some avocado toast"
From "Stop wasting your money on the new iphone", and then during covid to "You should buy the new iphone"
Something something avocados
Avocados are relatively expensive where I am, ~$1.50 a piece. An avocado is 240 calories. That's 160 calories/dollar. To meet all of your calories for the day on just avocados that would be about $12.50 to $18.75, for 2000 calories and 3000 calories respectively. That's pretty cheap, and I know they're less than half that price if you go south a bit.
I'm regularly eating bread and olive oil like a 17th century peasant.
It's nice bread though.
Bro, this is the US. We don't "believe in" vacations over here.
Regarding "vacations" - the prevailing wisdom for basically my entire life has been "buy experiences, not things". Do you really need a new [thing] when the [thing] you have works perfectly well already? Consider buying a train ticket instead!
This and "travel when you're young, you won't appreciate it as much when you're older and you may not be physically able to do everything you dreamed"
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groceries
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vacations
Interesting pairing
The old “Wayne Gretzky and Brent Gretzky have the most combined NHL goals of any brothers” gambit.
I'm 33 and I just realized I've never actually gone on a real vacation. Whenever I "travel" and take time off it's just to see family in another state. I've never like, gone to a tropical island and just hung out on the beach for a few days.
In all fairness, "real vacations" are a product being sold and advertised to you by the holiday industry. Taking time off at home and visiting friends and relatives is a perfectly fine use of vacation time.
I did this many years ago and it was so healing and my fog lifted from my brain and I had incredible energy, and then the day before I left I caught a cold in the hotel and fell asleep with my mouth open in 0% humidity and spent the next 2 weeks hunched over a keyboard with blood leaking from my mouth and lips and every benefit of the vacation was gone forever