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.
Turns out the local company that made bootstraps for 125 years was bought out by a hedge fund, which promptly fired all of the workers and subcontracted manufacturing to a company in Sri Lanka who could make them much cheaper by using inferior materials and by paying the Sri Lankan workers in 6 months what a fired local worker made in a day.
Ironically, the hedge fund CEO with the MBA he received as a legacy admission to Cornell only wears slippers because fuck you, I'm the boss.
Hold on bucko, the corporate police noticed that you were saying seditious statements about our glorious brand. The shareholders will decide your fate.
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
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
Lmao what the fucking hell. I hope that guy was let go by whatever college he "teaches" at. I put teaches in quotations because I hope they are drug testing that fucker. He took some flaka or something.
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
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.
It's basically your liver (and kidneys) pushing glucose into your bloodstream when you wake up. It's common across nearly all animals. It seems like if your body gets used to not having food first thing, the morning response becomes stronger, and your body takes longer to shift to glucolysis. Which might explain the nausea part if you aren't used to eating first thing.
I stopped eating breakfast when I left home, so I'm pretty locked in to 2 or even 1 meal a day since I can't be arsed to waste time eating at lunchtime most days anyway. I make up for it with coffee.
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.
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.
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.
16/8 is the most common intermittent fasting protocol for begginers. 20/4 is recommended in case of autoimmune disease, to reverse leaky gut and insulin resistance.
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.
Stupid article aside, a large filling breakfast being good for you and the whole "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" is a complete and utter lie invented for advertisement.
The point wasn't to skip breakfast, it was that a big one isn't necessary. Have a piece of toast, have a giant breakfast or none at all. It's usually fine to follow your bodies need if you're hungry or thirsty. It's just that some people think it's important to have a big breakfast, which is a untrue. A small refreshing or nurishing one is much better in many cases.
It's fun and games, but lately I've seen 2 colleagues eating from the office kitchen the leftovers of extra bread and cream cheese, instead of ordering. It's actually sad.
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.
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.
Its crazy, but here in Aus the supermarkets are the same way. Some supermarkets keep their eggs chilled. Some just leave them on a trestle table in the middle of an aisle. I tend to do whatever the supermarket had been doing when I bought them.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
I have the exact story. If i eat breakfast I feel I'll starve by lunch. Now no late dinners and breakfast and I'm not even that hungry by lunch. Lost 20 kilos of lockdown bulk as well and my body wants to stay around 74 which is good enough for me.
The best part is I get to eat what I want and how much I want for two meals with no care whatsoever.
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.
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...
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".
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.
Of course, the answer was right in front of me! I just need to pull on those bootstraps harder
My bootstraps broke when I pulled them harder.
Turns out the local company that made bootstraps for 125 years was bought out by a hedge fund, which promptly fired all of the workers and subcontracted manufacturing to a company in Sri Lanka who could make them much cheaper by using inferior materials and by paying the Sri Lankan workers in 6 months what a fired local worker made in a day.
Ironically, the hedge fund CEO with the MBA he received as a legacy admission to Cornell only wears slippers because fuck you, I'm the boss.
Hold on bucko, the corporate police noticed that you were saying seditious statements about our glorious brand. The shareholders will decide your fate.
It's treason then
Just eat once a week. Yuge savings
Skip lunch lol
Fasting ๐ค
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
Reminds me of the Forbes article about giving public libraries to Amazon.
Lmao what the fucking hell. I hope that guy was let go by whatever college he "teaches" at. I put teaches in quotations because I hope they are drug testing that fucker. He took some flaka or something.
He was an economics teacher at a private college. He's entirely on brand for that school.
that's the one Bezos bought?
Murdoch owns WSJ, Bezos owns The Washington Post.
ahh, so worse than I thought, lol
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!
what would actually happen if you did do this... say for money reasons
โInstead of seeking happiness, save money with miseryโ
Thank you, Iโve finally achieved Capitalist enlightenment! The secrets of capitalism are mine!
Iโm 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.
To not get murdered, die right now...
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
We'll get sick either way, so better to just take the short pain.
Turn them into soil. Put them in the ground.
I feel quite hungry lately
I could never eat human meat ๐
True, Elon probably tastes like meth
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.
Did I just find my people? I thought I was alone. Do I need to look that word up now fuck
It's basically your liver (and kidneys) pushing glucose into your bloodstream when you wake up. It's common across nearly all animals. It seems like if your body gets used to not having food first thing, the morning response becomes stronger, and your body takes longer to shift to glucolysis. Which might explain the nausea part if you aren't used to eating first thing.
I stopped eating breakfast when I left home, so I'm pretty locked in to 2 or even 1 meal a day since I can't be arsed to waste time eating at lunchtime most days anyway. I make up for it with coffee.
Deployment did it for me :( I don't mind but when I get hungry for lunch now, it's a more severe hunger.
Iโm the other way around, due to some of the medication I take. Gotta eat with it or Iโll have terrible stomach pains all morning.
Sumaglutide?
lol nah, a medication Iโve been taking most of my life that angers an empty stomach.
My doctor is making me do weight loss (and diabetes avoidance) the natural way, unfortunately.
Gotcha. I was on sumaglutide for a few months and it did basically all the opposite of what's advertised, in addition to an awful stomach knot.
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.
Hmm, lunch sandwiches are also pretty cheap compared to supper, maybe have lunch for supper then instead?
Well that would just make supper dinner then wouldn't it?
I don't think they know about supperdinninses, Pip!
Have you seen the cost of deli meat lately?
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 ๐คข
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.
What intro was that from? I can't figure it out :-(
It's from... "Nondescript White-Ethnocentric Nostalgia Family with Canned Laughter" Good show
"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.
Science says nothing of the sort, but marketing certainly does.
Actually, science says he's right. You should fast at least 16 hour per day.
I've never seen this were have you read that ?
For exemple
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-nutr-071816-064634?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed#_i24
16/8 is the most common intermittent fasting protocol for begginers. 20/4 is recommended in case of autoimmune disease, to reverse leaky gut and insulin resistance.
Advertising says he's wrong. Science actually backs him. Look up autophagy and see all the health benefits that you get from a fasted state.
If you don't have enough money for bread, buy cake instead!
Great advice with almost no historical downsides, probably!
No need to skip meals, there's plenty of rich to eat
Maybe I should get more money and live a normal life yea?
Have you tried not being poor?
I try one day then Iโm poor again.
"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.
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...
No worries, I've got you. Skip lunch to save additional money.
already did. now what
You may not believe it but you can skip dinner too
Sleep for dinner again? But I had that last night!
You intermittent fast for health benefits.
I intermittent fast because I'm broke
We are not the same
In fact, after breakfast and lunch, dinner is the best meal to skip.
How much additional do I save if was planning on having avocado toast?
You'd save abo... Wait a minute, us regular people can't afford avocado toast.
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.
Stupid article aside, a large filling breakfast being good for you and the whole "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" is a complete and utter lie invented for advertisement.
https://www.npr.org/2005/04/22/4612464/freuds-nephew-and-the-origins-of-public-relations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
Advertisement or not, if I eat something for breakfast I'm no longer hungry in the morning.
The point wasn't to skip breakfast, it was that a big one isn't necessary. Have a piece of toast, have a giant breakfast or none at all. It's usually fine to follow your bodies need if you're hungry or thirsty. It's just that some people think it's important to have a big breakfast, which is a untrue. A small refreshing or nurishing one is much better in many cases.
Oh absolutely, I agree
Joke's on them, 25% of Americans don't even eat breakfast.
Hey, at least it didn't outright suggest offing yourself to escape student loan debt like NYT did a couple months back.
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"
It's fun and games, but lately I've seen 2 colleagues eating from the office kitchen the leftovers of extra bread and cream cheese, instead of ordering. It's actually sad.
Damn, I wish my break room had bread and cream cheese ๐
you guys have break rooms in your offices?
You guys go into the office?
Yeahh intermittent fasting bro ๐ช /s
This but unironically. Pretty good life choice lol, regardless of what the reason is.
Just gotta make sure you also excersize so your muscles don't atrophy.
Ofc.
I thought this was a joke, but no, it's real.
Are you relatively healthy at least?
Haha the poors should just eat less food! Problem solved!
especially if we ate the rich instead!
I mean, intermittent fasting is legit but not to save money... Ffs...
You skip breakfast for weight management.
I skip breakfast because im too poor to eat.
straightens tie
We are mot the same
Maybe you could afford breakfast, if you would spent less on your fancy attire!
But the tie is all i have! Without that id be fully naked!
This does mot make sense
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!
Iโd expect nothing less from Rupert Murdoch's little periodical.
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.
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 ๐ช
"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.
Non-Americans don't refrigerate eggs?
We do not. At least some of us.
I'm from Pakistan and we put our eggs in the fridge in the little installed egg holders on the fridge after we buy them
Here in the Philippines we just pick whether to put them in the fridge or not at random. Doesn't seem to affect the quality in any way.
Its crazy, but here in Aus the supermarkets are the same way. Some supermarkets keep their eggs chilled. Some just leave them on a trestle table in the middle of an aisle. I tend to do whatever the supermarket had been doing when I bought them.
American here with backyard chickens: I don't refrigerate my eggs
Well I knew that was pretty standard, I meant with grocery stores as pictured above...
We do in Denmark, but from what I understand, it's not strictly necessary.
But do you buy them out of the fridge at the supermarket? That seems to be the main difference here
In Spain we don't. They're in regular, unrefrigerated shelves.
Edit: but we (at least in my circles) keep them refrigerated at home, although I don't know how necessary it is (I suppose it depends on the climate?)
Yes, we do. They're in the fridge in the supermarket, usually next to the milk.
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.
To save more money, stop eating lunch and dinner
Why even bother? Just stop eating
Next headline:
#Millennials are Killing the Food Industry
"They just eat "woke"
If you eat just after having woke, then that is literally called "breakfast".
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.
Greatest country in the world
"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 read it as monkey, and it didn't make any sense.
You need less monkey if you skip breakfast. What's not to understand?
"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.
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.
I have the exact story. If i eat breakfast I feel I'll starve by lunch. Now no late dinners and breakfast and I'm not even that hungry by lunch. Lost 20 kilos of lockdown bulk as well and my body wants to stay around 74 which is good enough for me.
The best part is I get to eat what I want and how much I want for two meals with no care whatsoever.
How much are eggs for you all? I just picked up a dozen for 3.75.
Similar in euros in Holland
How many is a dozen in Holland?
Een dozijn
Skip all meals and save even more!
Fine. I'll have the Irish Benedict for lunch or dinner.
So fucking dumb.
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.
Thanks, Bezos. Thezos.
Maybe fuck that, the stores should take a hit so we can eat.
Like, why even have a government, if it canโt feed, clothe, and house the people? Shouldnโt that be priority #1?
I agree 100%
Cool, maybe we can start a club or something
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...
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".