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15427625 No.15427625 [Reply] [Original]

Do poor people view eating out as a luxury?

>> No.15427631

>>15427625
Eating out at a good restaurant? Sure

Eating out at McDonalds? lolno.

>> No.15427648

>>15427625
As a poor person, I have an insider's perspective on your question. I view it as a waste of money. I cook better food than most restaurants serve at any price. Since I am not rich and useless, I spent many years learning useful life skills that I apply to my own well-being. I don't want your money or anything that you are selling.

>> No.15427670

>>15427625
Poor people are almost always poor because they're dumb/unskilled and make bad financial decisionslike going to restaurants because they don't know how to cook. Financially stable people usually balance eating out and preparing meals at home

>> No.15427772

>>15427625
they dont because most of them are stupid and waste money on stupid shit like eating out all the time
thats why theyre poor

>> No.15427780

>>15427777

>> No.15427782

I mean, I'm not poor and I recognize eating out as a luxury.

>> No.15427836

>>15427780
?

>> No.15428137

>>15427625
Growing up on a teacher's salary, yeah. We went out to eat maybe once a year and it felt like a luxury to me (I don't know what my parents thought).
>>15427670
Yeah man fuck my dad for wanting to teach people and my mom for wanting to be able to raise her children well. What bad decisions by them.

>> No.15428412

>>15428137
>poor
>had multiple kids

Fuck your mom too

>> No.15428421

>>15427625
I am skilled enough to prepare my own meals.

I am not a child anymore that needs to eat what other people make.

>> No.15428448

>>15427648
Sour grapes.

>> No.15428466

>>15427648
>I’m too poor to go to a restaurant
>I cook better food than most restaurants serve at any price
>I spent many years learning useful life skills
How can such a gifted chef be poor?

>> No.15428478

Growing up we would only go out to eat on Friday nights when grocery shopping. I always thought we were poor but turns out my parents were just really cheap.

>> No.15428490

>>15428466
Stupidity

>> No.15428582

Wife and I have a combined income that is over 75th percentile in the US and over 85th in our city. We almost always eat out about once a month, each having a 5-10 dollar appetizer, 15-20 dollar entree, and 1-2 drinks. We generally eat out a second time, usually something small like sushi, 2-3 rolls each at 5 dollars per roll, and split a bottle of sake. During football season I order pizza and wings at my buddy’s sports bar once or twice a month, and some beer. We don’t drink as much now because my wife has been pregnant or breastfeeding on and off for the last 6 years. I think we eat out a lot but we eat out less than our friends and colleagues.