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To Save Money, Maybe You Should Skip Breakfast By Gabriel T. Rubin WSJ A customer shops for eggs in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

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[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 45 points 2 years ago

To Save Money, Maybe You Should Organize a Violent Revolt Against the Capitalist Class

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

β€œTo Save Money, Maybe You Should Starve” β€” US foreign policy

[–] tox_solid@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 years ago

Also US domestic policy.

[–] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The next article will be complaining about millennials killing the egg industry

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Eggs, avocados, pears, anything that shape will work.

"You will eat shit and die before we pay you your worth"

-Owners of WSJ

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

2 months later

β€œMillennials and GenZ are destroying the Breakfast Market”

[–] supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People will let the elites talk to them like that actually. I am sure the WSJ could print an article saying "let rich people shit in your mouth, a solution to hunger" and people will still take it.

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's the full article say? I can only see the beginning of it

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Thank you! Disappointing that the article is just a bunch of numbers

[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 years ago

Impressive. Very nice. Let's see the author's net worth

[–] robzombie91@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

Article: maybe you should skip breakfast to save money

Bacon and Eggs suppliers: supply skyrockets while demand falls

Article: Please start eating breakfast!

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 years ago

Loss of appetite is already a common symptom of depression, so nobody needs to give the lower classes this advice; it is redundant.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Next thing you know the article will read "To Save Money, Maybe You Should Skip Eating" just so the rich can blame the poor for the crumbling economy that was/is actually caused by them doing the very bare minimum to support it.

[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I shit you not I saw one that was like "money troubles? Sell some of your stuff." I'll have to look through my files and find the exact post. lol

[–] lugal@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Wonna know what really helps again poverty?

Real estate

I’ve already been doing this for a while and you don’t see me bragging about it

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

i may have a wrong impression but dont europeans go very light on breakfast already?

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

It's just a metaphor; they should skip lunch and heating instead.

[–] roux@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago

In the US, breakfast is a lot of people's entire personality. They like to worship their bacon here in Burgerland.

[–] RedCat@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Compared to Americans? Probably.

I don't know how representative I am for the average European but I usually have some eggs or a cup of skyr with fruits and/or oats for breakfast.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i remember going to spain with some relatives as a kid and damn i was perpetually starving because our breakfast was 1 slice of bread with coffee. maybe they just were cheap i guess.

[–] RedCat@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, sounds likely.