https://x.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1800915894585147399

Krugman, despite being a neoliberal knows that food is an essential item. So likely he is propagandizing for Biden.

Look at personal savings rate.

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    Fast food is not a necessity like housing is. He's got a point, I've noticed the same thing. I've seen nearly universal agreement everytime it comes up that McDonald's is overpriced shit and you can get a better burger for less anywhere else.

    Know what I've never seen? A closed McDonald's.

    It would be one thing if he was making the argument for food in general but if it's specifically fast food, yea people do keep complaining about it and then choosing to continue buying it for no apparent reason. Kinda like how gamers have been complaining about vidya going to shit for a decade while pre ordering every single aaa title.

    And like with gaming i just stopped buying them but it gets pretty frustrating to listen to people complain about how overpriced and bullshit something is then keep voluntarily buying it.

    And I'm sure like with gaming when I say if you think it's overpriced bulllshit stop buying it I'll be told not to tell people what to do with their money.

    Maybe it's just my rural privellage of not having a fast food place within 30 miles of me but yea, I don't understand why not eating fast food is such a ridiculous proposal. Let these billion dollar companies who abuse every living being that comes in contact with their supply chain from cows to farmers to workers die out.

    • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]
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      6 months ago

      Most people are 🐑🐏

      They're not thinking critically about what they buy, and they don't have enough brains to comprehend their hypocrisy. They're just saying things to say them, not to try to advance understanding.

      It's depressing living in a society like the US and being surrounded by these people all day, every day.