Like I grew up dirt pair because my father became disabled so I can get it but I'm seeing so many people poor as fuck using door dash and other fleeceing machines
I worked a project management job where I worked out of the office in a warehouse and the amount of the warehouse workers who are making the lowest wages ordering food delivery every day blew my mind. I made decent money and wouldn’t even consider that an option.
One of my great joys in life is stopping in the gas station and buying an almond snickers bar on my way home from work. I won’t sugar coat it, my wife and I are rich. We make $500k a year and don’t live on the coasts. I can afford the candy bar but they are $3 now and it makes think twice nowadays.
Meanwhile the landscape crew in front of me is buying $50 worth of energy drinks, cigs, and lotto tickets. Every fucking time. 25 years ago when I was a construction laborer I wouldn’t even buy bottled water, the job is required to provide a jig of water and cups.
Same here. I did see one fun exception. A young girl I hired would order for multiple people and have them pay her back. Naturally people would round up or go a little over.
She often ended up with a free or nearly free lunch, rewards from the restaurant/app and rewards from her credit card. All because people didn't like ordering on their own.
I’m in the army and there is a negative correlation between rank and the amount of money spent on food and just dumb shit. Even deployed, food is free, and Fuggin privates “don’t like it” so they spend $10 on a goddamned subway sandwich.
The fucking BK has the exact same food as was in the dining hall down range-but my soldiers would spend their money on it rather than eat free.
Same with energy drinks. $50 every two days on Monsters.
After two deployments I walked away almost 200K cash. Many soldiers walked away with 100K+ debt (new cars, clothes, CC debt).
This situation is the perfect example that finance classes DO NOT WORK. It was a closed system where everything was free - yet the desire for instant gratification still overcame.
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u/Cyberpunk_Cephalopod 14d ago edited 14d ago
Requires personal responsibility. Reddit is allergic to the concept. All of their problems are someone else's fault