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ericbomb

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  • I guess that's the main problem with billionaires, is we didn't pick any of them, and once they're a super billionaire we can't really do much about them.

    Oh don't buy their products? They're invested in everything, most food brands are just different names for the same factories. Oracle billionaire? WTF are you going to do to protest Oracle? Politicians we, are supposed to, pick. Billionaires become billionaires generally by being the worst, then there isn't anything we can do about it.

    So we need to get the politicians on our side to keep the billionaires in check... or violent revolution. I'm a pacifist so I like the first one more, but if the majority is up for the second one, I'm not gonna say ya'll are wrong.

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  • Maybe if you're a hummus eating coward!...

    Or you get a very big bag....

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  • I'm thinking about this too much now. Maybe tortillas would be the best bet? Or at least cheaper than bread. Also tortillas go great with lots of different cooked beans and cheap as dirt spices.

    When we're talking about a penny per ounce in savings, math gets angry.

    Could maybe pepper gravy over rice be the best bet?

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  • I think people are tired of money saving advice because so much of it is corporate victim blaming, "You do get paid enough! You just are too lazy to work enough hours (We only offer 35 btw), have 3 room mates (Which would be illegal because of zoning laws), and cook your own meals (while also working 60 hours a week)!"

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  • I do love me a good bargain!

    Gotta save up enough money so I can buy instead of rent things like the corporate over lords so desperately want me to do!

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  • If the goal of giving budgeting advice is to make people stop demanding better treatment from their employers, it is incredibly malicious.

    Unions recommending/setting up carpooling and potlucks while on strike so the money they pay lasts = good

    Employers telling you that minimum wage is enough if you just have four room mates and eat nothing but rice and beans = Malicious

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  • The "red necks" who do road kill specials are just fighting against ground beef being $5/pound (which is somehow after all the subsidies they get in the US)!

    I feel like some red neck making fun of is straight up just making fun of folks who found a way to make do and be happy. Like owning your own land with a little pre fab you learned to maintain yourself, and eating lots of hunted game? Good stuff.

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  • Good point! Rice makers are super efficient, so rice made with that might be the winner. But honestly the cheap carbs you can stand and make edible cheaply are probably just what you gotta go with.

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  • Yeah like there are folks who are worth 10ish million who just bought a house 50ish years ago that gained a lot of value and had dual incomes that saved all their money for retirement.

    100 million folks are on THIN ice, but there is probably an author or inventor out there who made something really nice and everyone they worked with was also well taken care of. Most of them are probably garbage, but not all of them have to be. Some famous actors also were well known for making sure everyone got paid what they deserved on set and were very generous.

    I just don't see getting to a billion without someone being taken advantage of on the way though.

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  • I grew up a similar way! My mom always referred to protein as meat. Needed to add chicken or beef or pork to be the "protein" to make a dinner complete.

    Never mind it being cheese or bean based, meaning it had tons of protein.

    I would have to do the math on TVP on if it's a better source of protein per buck than like split peas. But glad it's working out for you!

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  • Interesting! What is considered the cheap source of proteins over there? Is it just soy?

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  • I feel like since they are mostly water weight, the math doesn't always look great. But let's go through it!

    For example: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Russet-Potatoes-10-lb-Bag-Whole/10449951?classType=REGULAR&from=/search

    10 pounds of food for $3 sounds great, but in a pound there is only 300 calories about, depending on type/peel/etc. So 3,000 calories for 3 dollars. At $1 per 1000 calories it isn't bad.

    But let's compare to this 5 pound bag of flour for 2.38, at 3 cents an ounce:

    https://www.walmart.com/search?q=flour

    A pound of flour has 1,600 calories. So this bag of flour that is cheaper than the potatoes, has 8000 calories for 2.50. But you'll need to put in some elbow grease to make it edible. Doing a sourdough is probably the cheapest way to do it since all you need is flour, water, salt, and the starter you made using flour, but it is more time intensive. So about 3,200 calories for a dollar.

    Rice comes in with a very similar amount of calories, but just a little more expensive at 4 cents an ounce:

    https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Long-Grain-Enriched-Rice-5-lbs/10315395?classType=REGULAR&athbdg=L1600&from=/search

    Rice is a bit easier to turn edible though, so the extra dollar might be worth it for a 5 pound bag. 2,400 calories per dollar spent.

    Then oatmeal comes in as our most expensive at 7 cents an ounce.

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KV4H51G?tag=sacapuntas9-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1

    At once again 1600ish calories for a pound of dry oatmeal, it is 1.12 per pound. So it is creeping up closer to the price of potatoes TBH, and if you were super on a budget the oatmeal would be the first to go. But I suppose potatoes aren't "that" much worse than oatmeal. But my thought was oatmeal is good breakfast option so wanted to include it, and the top bit is mostly setup for bottom.

    Knowing this stuff is helpful to our daily lives because rich people hate us.

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  • Ain't that the truth! I'm a lay off and a medical emergency from needing to do this diet.

    Billionaires are either an apocalypse or a revolution away from needing to do this.

    One of these is much more likely to happen tomorrow than the other.

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  • Hey, there might be some politicians on here who can always call up their good friends whenever they need something!

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  • Feel free to ask me questions on how to eat on a budget so you can keep your strength up while organizing against those that wish nothing more for you to work until the day you die and own nothing of consequence!

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  • But this is SOO tedious. The annoying bit is it could just be one person who set it up over a weekend, has a script that they plug into when wanting to be a troll, and now all admins/mods have to do more work.

    You're fighting the good fight! So annoying that folks are doing it on freaking lemmy.

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  • I was going to say "Oh you can potty train any mammal!"

    Then I remembered Pandas exist... sooo I'll just say "Most mammals have had examples of them being potty trained"

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  • So he looks litter trained based on the box, so my "guess" is it's to help keep any related stains to this carpet, same you don't wanna put you litter box on a carpet for a cat, also if all his toys/food are on the rug, he'll probably stay on the rug most of the time.

    Just a guess though.