How to be financially stable
Step 1: make 100.000 dollars at the age of 25
Step 2: show class solidarity and seize the means of production
deleted by creator
The prices of things are relative in different markets based on whatever exchange value the capitalist can extract. If anything, this food budget is unrealistically low, just like everything else in this budget.
deleted by creator
Anyways, thanks for helping the reactionaries make their argument. For years they’ve been telling millennials that their problem is they eat too much avocado toast. If only they would live off beans and rice, that rent at 50% if their income wouldn’t sting so much.
You completely missed what CNN was trying to do when you got focused on the smallest piece of that budget.
deleted by creator
It’s also much more efficient. People will think meat is calorie dense and efficient in those terms, but every 1 calorie of beef you eat costs 6 calories in crops fed to the cow. I believe chicken and most others are 4 or 5 calories of crops per calorie of meat. 50% of the continental US is currently used to raise livestock and the food to feed them, funnily enough reducing meat consumption would also greatly reduce the amount of crops we consume as a society overall further reducing water and many other types of waste.
deleted by creator
Rice+beans+veggies+chicken/fish+spices. great
Donations…?
The implication is religious tithe which is part of the cultural shaming CNN is going for. The mega churches in the US thrive on the scam of the prosperity gospel. I.e. Jesus will make you financially successful if you’re faithful enough. And, of course, the “faithful” donate a large portion of their income to the church 😉.
In the context of dirty business, donations could mean bribery or funding for a criminal activity.
I live in what americucks would consider a 3rd world shit hole and even here, with 425€ you can MAYBE rent a small room with shared bathroom and kitchen
Dude I literally live in a rural military town and the absolute lowest, and I mean genuinely cheapest shittiest 1 room apt is about $850-1100. A few years back you could get that for legit like $500 a month here. Houses are even worse. Bubble, please pop.
Even if you could find rent for the $825 quoted in rural America, there’s no way you can live there on a $130 transportation budget. A car payment and insurance alone will be twice that, or more, even before you buy gas, tires, and all the other shit that goes into a car.
This budget looks like they straight up took a real budget, divided everything by 2, then published it to shame people with what is clearly utter bullshit.
what does one 25 yo eat every month that costs 400 fucking dollars, while also eating 250 worth of take out food???
don’t even get me started on the rent, unless they’re house sharing, have roommates
Lots of pre-prepared foods and otherwise high value things like meat. Alcohol also adds up quickly, especially on the eating out side. It is possible to eat well for less money, but most USians are too lazy to purchase food that requires extensive preparation. If you’re a 25yo earning $100K and living in a big city (he must be because there’s no car payment) then you are definitely going to spend more than $250/mo eating out. I’m sure it sounds outrageous, and it is, but the sad truth is that CNN low-balled this just like every other line item in that budget.
this reminds me of this article from a few years ago about some lawyer couple from new york who made $500k+ a year and was complaining about how they’re “scraping by.” They listed their budget which included stuff like spending $40k a year on childcare, $20k a year on vacations, $10k a year for “miscellaneous” items, etc. Just completely out of touch with reality
Do “donations” mean paying student loan debt? Who donates almost a quarter of their income?
Read probably: “drugs”
“House Cleaner”
30 dollars a month as well. Either this guy has a cleaning person over for one hour a month or the cleaner gets exploited as fuck. That’s a dollar a day for cleaning. Even if cleaning takes an hour, that’s sickening.
Not to put it on blast because it’s just a reflection of the times, but I got coworkers who does house cleaning on the weekend cleaning doctor houses. Last time I heard, some of these coworkers made a cool 500 dollars under the table for a single day’s work.
If a cleaner can do a home in 1 hour for 30 bucks; they may very well.be able to knock out 6 houses in a day. Yes. It’s a brutal hustle, but that’s good money for a single day.
Excellent with money lol
How does stuff like this get past internal editorial review?
Why would they think any differently, they probably had this made and hired the guy that made it because it’s their friend’s son or some other nepotism. They are all in the same class.
I WISH RENT WAS 825 FUCKING DOLLARS!! Id be over the moon if that’s all I paid outta pocket
The “donations” are to his landlord, presumably.
I have a friend this age that is incredibly well educated and has an AWESOME job he just got…he barely makes half this. Most people my age I know make $15-25k (although admittedly most people I know don’t have a good college education)
I want to see the infographic on that house cleaner he is paying absolute shit to.
