Stop splurging on rotisserie chicken, you irresponsible bastards
>>61843408Honestly when I look back at my boomer parent's spending, they spent nothing like this generation does. There were no gym membership, no streaming services, no food delivery, no new phone every year/every couple of years, no fancy trips.They had a TV and ate boomer tier cheap shit food, although home-cooked.They had no fucking expenses, so no wonder they could save a lot.The modern whiny zoomers could save a shit otn by cancelling all their subscriptions and eating potatoes and cheap meat + frozen vegetables.
>>61843408Don't they realize they could put the $6 they spent on a relatively hefty source of meat (and broth if you boil the bones) in a roth IRA they could have a few more cents when it's time to give it all to a nursing home?
>>61843408I'll pay back my $14,000 in student loans as soon as everyone else pays back the millions of PPP loans they took out.
>>61843408Gut healthy juices? Like what, kombucha?
>>61843408>stop buying the Costco rotisserie chicken that they sell at a loss and is only there to lure dumb people to buy high profit margin products
>>61843408rotisserie chickens are inexpensive loss leaders. why is the WSJ attacking budget shoppers?
>>61843445I have no subscriptions, no deliveries, no new electronics, no vacations, and no job prospects beyond minimum wage office work despite advanced technical skills. Having a ton of money is impossible for me unless I get extremely lucky on an investment. Previous generations could work hard and learn skills then actually get rewarded for it by being allowed to experience life.
>>61843445They bought fancy tv dinners, moron. They literally do not know how to put ketchup and curry on a sausage.
>>61843502should've stayed in school
>>61843408Rotisserie chickens are loss leaders and excellent value for the consumer. We’re very fortunate to have them.
>>61843476WSJ puts out a lot of ragebait article titles nowadays to try and bait people into subscribing, noticed it when my free sub lapsed
>>61843511>despite advanced technical skillsboomers didn't need a college education, special skills, or decades of saving to buy a home, btw
>>61843511I have a mathematics degree from one of the top research institutions in the world, full scholarship zero debt
>>61843408Cutting back spending to pay off your debts is good. That's what I did. Then, after I paid off my student loans, I bought a cellphone and a car and started splurging more while also saving more.Starting with my generation (millennials) we have the taste and expectations of kings. It takes a lot of work and discipline to afford that lifestyle.
>>61843533If you can't get a job as a math major, then you're hopeless. Should've studied harder
>>61843533Do you lack personal or political skills that could help your career? Does your personality suck and no one wants to work with you? Are you creepy?I'd be hard pressed to find a minimum wage office job in the US since they almost always pay more. Seems odd that you not only found one but you're stuck in one.
>>61843525You're losing money if you pay for costco and only buy a chicken a week. A single person doesn't really need a costco membership.
>>61843558Technically they pay a few dollars above minimum wage but the difference is so small it's basically a rounding error. All my employers have said I'm enthusiastic to pick up extra work and very consistent but I'm 5'6".
>>61843408>NOOOOOOO STOP BUYING THE $5 ROTISSERIE CHICKEN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWhat did the Associated Propaganda mean by this?
>>61843592Height doesn't matter in an office.Be competent, friendly and helpful to all, and keep at it. You never know when a professional relationship pays off ( not all do but some will).
>>61843408I can only read the first two paragraphs because it’s pay walled but it seems like the article is actually about zoomers shopping at whole foods and the like when kroger sells basically the same rotisserie chicken for half as much.
>>61843408>rotisserie chicken>splurgingIn what world?
>>61843533damn that sucks I have an astrophysics degree and can get a job anywhere, cool larp though kek
>>61843408Next WSJ headline:>All you need is bugs. Eat the bugs
>>61843623I am courteous to everyone but after a certain number of years of being talked to like you are 16 when you are pushing 30 you start to realize competency is not enough.>>61843643I've met dozens in the exact same position as me but keep on believing it couldn't possibly be real. Eventually confidence will break down more severely and there will be shortages.
>>61843408Juices are retarded, just eat whole fruits and vegetables.
>>61843445Eliminating all of the expenses you mentioned for a year equates to maybe 5% of a realistic mortgage down payment
>>61843662Are you mostly working with 60-80 year olds? That's just how it goes. That said, sometimes you need to switch jobs for someone to see your value. Good luck with your career.>>61843900It took me 18 years to save 30% down.
>>61843445> They had no fucking expenses, so no wonder they could save a lot.Because their housing cost were fractions of what they are now. A 10% reduction in a mortgage (let alone the real changes of 25-50% is hundreds of dollars a month.
>>61843408Is this a satire article?
>>61843571First, that’s retarded. Clearly you’d buy things there and save on them vs a regular grocery store if you had a membership. You save money if you’re single unless you have a 500sq ft apartment or something like this. Secondly, even if they got a membership and ONLY bought one chicken a week that’s not a bad deal. It’s $65 a year for a membership or $1.25 a week. Add that to the chicken cost and it’s $6.25 for a chicken. It’s still a good deal at that price.
>>61844085>>61843639>>61843476It’s blatant pandering to boomers which is most of their subscriber base. They’ll lie because that’s what journalists do, and the people they are lying about aren’t buying WSJ subscriptions.
>>61843445>Boomer could buy 1.5 oz of gold per week working at McD's (before taxes)>Zoomer can buy 1.5 oz of gold every 12.66 weeks working at McD's (before taxes)Now apply this to housing. Boomers got to grow up and enter the labor force in by far the most prosperous time period ever recorded in the history of the world. Zoomzoom cancelling his spotify and wireless buttplug accounts or whatever isn't going to make up for that gap.
>>61843448I use my disposable income to gamble on the stock market and buy and sell precious metals. And no I am not a bag holder. I sold some of my stack today an hour before the price crashed. This was stuff I had been hording for years.
>>61843408...Rotisserie chickens are like $6 for a whole chicken. Is this really where the avocado toast argument is today?
>>61843662>Speak like you're 16 when you're in your 30sYeah, at some point you just start saying, "This is insane. I've been around for a while now, and I've had a lot of experiences. There are things that I know."
>>61843408It looks like the article is actually about shopping at ripoff stores like Whole Foods, which I can kind of get. But like, the clickbait message, which is intended to be incensing and enraging to their reader base, basically says:>Look at these goddamn young people, splurging on shit like NUTRITION instead of servicing their (((student debt)))Which I find pretty fucking wild
>costco chicken, renowned for how cheap it is and how costco loses money selling it, is now the example for luxury you need to give upThe person who wrote this article fucking attached their NAME to it, and nothing will be done.
>>61843507Yes anon, all those fancy frozen dinners really add up.>>61843445But this is correct. It's stupidly easy and normed to spend money constantly on shit that just wasn't available to boomers, especially outside of super major cities. Luxury goods are not just shops you have to go to Madison Avenue or Rodeo drive to buy and anyone can slather and buy them. In a normal-ass town, your delivery options were shitty pizza mega chain or local Chinese restaurant, which often didn't deliver more than a few blocks away. Your REGULAR restaurants were shitty Applebee's-equivalent chains, shitty attempts at Italian, a bunch of fast food places and a mediocre steak place.Luxury coffee was a thing for Seattle and New York, most people were drinking instant or maybe buying pre ground shit to put in a filter with Mr Coffee.Every broke fag zoomer thinks it's just normal to have daily coffee milkshakes, a new iPhone, air pods, daily avocado toast, an entry level BMW, a new piece of clothing a week and a small one bedroom apartment to themselves in exchange for about 25 hours of labor in a menial job.>>61843900Nah, you miss all that gay shit and it's thousands a year. More like 5% of a house a yearGee whiz how AWFUL, you cut the fuck back and get a house oh nooooo
>>61843408I'm just not paying back my debt is all.
kind of want some rotisserie chicken
>>61844950>Nah, you miss all that gay shit and it's thousands a year. More like 5% of a house a yearI got my house at a steal, 170k, which is significantly cheaper than the medians nationwide. 5% of the cost of my abnormally cheap house is $8500, which you aren't reclaiming from cancelling a Netflix subscription at $250/yr (for their most expensive plan) and a Planet Fitness membership at $360/yr (Again, for their most expensive membership). Even a new iPhone is """only""" $1k tops. Not to say that it's impossible to save up for a house, but you're significantly downplaying the effort involved.
