• protist@mander.xyz
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    9 months ago

    To be clear, if you’re at all concerned about maintaining a food budget, even if it’s $500/week the billionaire class is still your enemy.

          • ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca
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            9 months ago

            It’s just a class that is absolutely exploring people. You can’t become a billionaire without it. You can absolutely become an honest millionaire so it wouldn’t make sense to use that.

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              9 months ago

              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.

              • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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                9 months ago

                probably an author or inventor out there who made something really nice and everyone they worked with was also well taken care of.

                JK Rowling should be a billionaire, but she keeps giving money away.

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    9 months ago

    Ok but for real tho. The average American severely underestimates how far you can get on rice, beans, lentils and chickpeas.

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      9 months ago

      Serious question, if I live off just that, I end up feeling like absolute garbage. That’s even with supplementing it with greens like spinach and some other veggies and vitamin supplements. What am I missing?

      Like, macro-wise, I can replace meat and other things, but it doesn’t seem to hit the same?

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        9 months ago

        Every plant is trying to kill you. It doesn’t want to be eaten. It especially doesn’t want you to eat its seeds. We can detoxify most of the ones that people eat, but it costs

        Eating the same plants over again can make you sick

        You may not be as good at detoxifying those plants as the people who do well eating them

        I know I’m a lot healthier with no plants in my diet than I have been with lots of plants