I already don't eat breakfast and I'm still poor, what now WSJ???
Economists hate this one SECRET HACK you can do to avoid poordom. Among investmentology specialists it is a well guarded secret that switching to a making money framework instead of the popular losing money framework has a long term net positive effect on your private economy.
Just eat once a week. Yuge savings
Skip lunch lol
Fasting π€
Spare lunch?
Have you tried photosynthesis?
Find a way to eat negative avocado toast in the morning
I think to save money you should skip dinner. Breakfast food is generally cheaper. Big breakfast at 10-11am. Late lunch at 4-5pm and a light dinner if hungry at night is more economical
Time to go one meal a day
Sleep for dinner
Of course this comes from the wall street journal lmao straight propaganda
I'm not religious, but I do feel like writing something like this is comparable to selling your soul to the devil. The person who wrote this abandoned their humanity for capitalists and they should be ashamed.
If they had the capacity to feel shame, I don't think they would have penned that article. Disgusts me how quickly people abandon humanity for a few schillings
Not religious, but I do believe the author is pegged by the Mammon for lolz and profit
I really thought this was satire until your comment.
Who thought this was a good idea to publish...
Tomorrow's headline, "Millenials are single handedly killing the breakfast industry".
My prescriptions cost so much too. Maybe I should just stop taking my antidepressants and see how it rides out. .
Just take 'em every other day, as a treat!
- DON'T do this!
what would actually happen if you did do this... say for money reasons
βInstead of seeking happiness, save money with miseryβ
Thank you, Iβve finally achieved Capitalist enlightenment! The secrets of capitalism are mine!
Iβm not ready for esoteric capitalism
Struggling to get by? Have you tried forgoing basic needs of survival like food?
" Instead of seeking happiness, save money on pussy" <-- what my GF read
Pro-tip: You can save money on living expenses if you just live in a cardboard box by the roadside and die.
Please not by the roadside, noone wants to see your progress to absolute freedom.
Thatβs illegal in many places. Illegal to be on a roadside, illegal to kill yourself.
Maybe we should eat billionaires instead
That can't be sanitary. I mean, who knows what kind of drugs these people take, what kinds of places they have been. People get worried about eating animals that have been given antibiotics, so I can't imagine that billionaire-meat will get approved for human consumption any time soon. We should probably just euthanize the poor souls and recycle the remains... \s
Turn them into soil. Put them in the ground.
We'll get sick either way, so better to just take the short pain.
I feel quite hungry lately
I could never eat human meat π
True, Elon probably tastes like meth
To not get murdered, die right now...
Aside from being tone deaf, I think this is bad advice. Common breakfast foods are fairly cheap comparatively and I'm pretty sure most nutritionists recommend eating something for breakfast to kickstart your metabolism. If I were skipping/reducing a meal, it would be lunch.
Gluconeogenesis does that well enough.
Plenty of people don't eat breakfast. I'll be nauseous for the rest of the day if I have anything before noon.
I only eat one real meal a day and supplement with light snacks and plenty of fluids. As long as that one meal is something of substance and not say, a ramen packet or something like that, I feel pretty good. There are people that do one meal a day with no other food intake at all, too, but that's a bit low for me.
Wait, my condition has a name?
Best I can do is add some more milk to my coffee.
The Wall Street Journal is just shitposting for rich people.
Maybe the WSJ has a point; we could save a lot of money if we stopped buying breakfast and just ate the WSJ staff instead
Foodborne illness π€’
They act like most of us even have time to make breakfast like we're living in some 90's sitcom
It's people like you that make me look like an asshole. Every morning I wake up at 3am to squeeze orange juice, make sausage gravy, biscuits, waffles, 5 omelettes, 40 pancakes, 6lbs of bacon, hash browns, buttered toast, and right after my son comes down the stairs, puts his ball cap on, grabs a single piece of bacon, heads out the door in a rush, I chase him down with a PB&J he inevitably always forgets. But it's not like I want to waste 40lbe of food per day. Some days I just want my son to sit down and eat the 40lbs of food I prepared. He may think I'm overbearing but I'm really overcaring.
"We know life is Hard, but have you tried Ultra Hard by skipping the most important meal of the day and starting out famished?"
Off topic but I don't think breakfast is any more or less important than a meal any other time of the day. Most days I only eat one big meal around dinnertime and maybe have a few bites of some snack throughout the day. I've been like that for years now it started from doing 12 hour construction shifts where I'd just work all day with a coffee and maybe an apple or something then eat a big meal once I was home. I don't do construction anymore but the way I eat stuck with me. It's probably worth pointing out that I'm very fit and a healthy bodyweight (5'10 152lbs) and I don't suffer any negative effects from living like this. I'd say I'm healthier than 90% of the people I know.
No need to skip meals, there's plenty of rich to eat
If you don't have enough money for bread, buy cake instead!
Great advice with almost no historical downsides, probably!
"And while you're at it, do you really NEED to sleep?"
"In fact, do you even NEED a home? You can just sleep at work like a good little corporate slave! "
might be funny until you know there are actually some people who do this.
There's a webcomic about a world where almost no one sleeps anymore thanks to a new drug. And they work 16 hours a day.
Your life is hard? Add malnourishment and see if that helps.
Maybe I should get more money and live a normal life yea?
Have you tried not being poor?
I try one day then Iβm poor again.
I hope whoever wrote this trips in their bathroom and gets a severe brain injury.
Man that's kinda fucked up, who knows if they'd survive getting another brain injury
Same but for the editor who chose that headline
AIs don't have a bathroom, or even a brain.
News sites will do anything to get engagement and attention. ANYTHING.
I already skip breakfast, gonna need additional money saving tips...
stick to low GI carbs perhaps, so it takes extra time to digest!
also, drink water right before a meal. turns out brain is pretty shit at distinguishing thirst and hunger... you also get "full" by drinking water so you end up eating a bit less heh.
nO bOdY iS bUyInG aNytHinG!!!!
17 industries that millennials are killing; #11 will make you shit in your own mouth in anger!
Skip 1 meal to save money
Skip 2 meals to lose weight
Skip all 3 meals and end world hunger
It's just that simple.
I think you're suppose to start a revolution after missing three meals. I think the people on wallstreet forgot that.
The headline is as valid as "just stop being poor"
I thought this was a joke, but no, it's real.
Haha the poors should just eat less food! Problem solved!
especially if we ate the rich instead!
If the article matches the clickbait title, fuck anyone involved with it being written and published.
If the article doesn't match the clickbait title, fuck anyone involved with it being written and published for using a clickbait title like that.
If the article is published in the wall street journal, fuck everyone involved with that toilet paper disguised as news organization.
I remember that paper had an article or op-ed on a subject that is close to my heart and my father was a subscriber. When we discussed whatever it said (this was years ago), I was lamenting to him that they had absolutely no idea what they were saying. Completely off base. They're probably accurate about how to increase existing wealth, but likely not much else.
Save money and lose weight with this one easy trick.
No funds? Have you considered refraining from eating as a means of saving money?
Think of all the weight you can lose while saving money!
Iβd expect nothing less from Rupert Murdoch's little periodical.
Humans can live without food for up to 2 months, so to save even more money, just eat food every 1 month and 29 days!
You'll be a billionaire in seconds!
What about second breakfast?
Elevenses?
angry Hobbit noises
It's ok we still have the 2nd, 3rd and 4th breakfast.
Clickbait headline for a boring article πͺ
"Save money by avoiding expensive foods."
Does Texas not refrigerate their eggs?
Americans refrigerate eggs?
Yes. If I understand correctly, it's because the eggs are washed, which strips them of their natural protective coating and causes them to require refrigeration.
I (UK) also do this. Makes them last longer. Do the same with most fruit and veg.
They're not refrigerated in the supermarket though.
Greatest country in the world
Here's a nice (non-paywalled) breakdown of the original article and reactions to it. I just managed to get the first few sentences of the WSJ thing (despite disabling Javascript), but between the article and the breakdown, it seems the author picked a baity title to an otherwise uncontroversial (if lacking) analysis of food price inflation.
Journalists don't write their own heds. It would have been an editor who wrote it. Your point stands otherwise.
I read it as monkey, and it didn't make any sense.
"I'm holding your monkey hostage. If you can go one week without eating breakfast, I will return him unharmed."
Jokes on you I technically skip breakfast for several weeks now, if breakfast is only eaten in the morning. Now, I want monkey in my office until lunch, unharmed.
You need less monkey if you skip breakfast. What's not to understand?
"If you want to save money, give up your avocados and lattes. Move into a large beer cooler and make soup out of fallen leaves"-Wall Street Journal's advice next probably.
I haven't eaten breakfast in a decade and feel great with tons of energy. You actually don't need that shit at all.
I can't be sure but I have a feeling that you and I have different bodies because I can't cope without breakfast.
I thought like you at one time... I'd eat a bowl of cereal and be starving by 10:00, but I've been skipping breakfast for almost a year now, and the weird thing is I'm no more hungry at 10 than I was with breakfast - so if it's not staving off the hunger, what's the point? And I've lost a little weight too.
Skip all meals and save even more!
Seriously though skip breakfast
Yeah, I rarely have it unless I have to travel for a while and won't have a chance to take an early lunch. I don't usually get up til 8:55 though. I have to be at work by 9.
Fine. I'll have the Irish Benedict for lunch or dinner.
So fucking dumb.
I mean, it's valid, if not for the incorrect reason. I personally fast past breakfast all the time , mainly because I'm not a huge fan of it. Otherwise, yeah...
Thanks, Bezos. Thezos.
no 25Q breakfast per 4 picoseconds
I really dont understand the hate on this post?
It's just a catchy headline, I expect the article itself would actually discuss some of the reasons one might skip breakfast. And there are good reasons to skip breakfast, money aside.
If one suggests restricting how much one eats out of financial reasons, then that is a clear indicator that very likely there's a big systemic problem in the room we aren't discussing.
I agree. Malnourishment due to inequality (or any other reason) is bad. I also agree that there is a systemic problem where healthy food is drastically less accessible than unhealthy food.
I don't, however, think that this headline is an outrageous thing to say. I, for one, am choosing to buy less food than I usually eat (especially meat) due to its cost, but also for health and environmental reasons. There is more nuance than just "eat the rich".
