With unemployment low and wages rising, the struggle for basic necessities like food should be easing. But those on the front lines of feeding the hungry say they are seeing the opposite.
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    We were over at my mother’s yesterday and we were talking about grocery prices and my mother asked my wife how much we paid for milk and my wife says she doesn’t look, because it doesn’t matter when we need milk regardless. I don’t look either. It’s the same with gas prices. I hear they’ve gone way down, but I’ve honestly stopped looking. What difference does it make what a gallon of gas costs when I need that gallon no matter what it costs?

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        We don’t “need” milk in the sense that it is not necessary for our survival. We need milk in order to keep eating and drinking the things we enjoy eating and drinking. And I don’t think it is unreasonable to expect milk in your tea and your cereal.

        • Adalast@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          No, you do need milk. Don’t let the capitalist propaganda engine tell you that comfort and contentment are not necessary for life. To even insinuate that having milk to put on cereal or in tea is some sort of luxury or indulgence that you should be able to cut out is lunacy. Human beings need comfort as much as we need socialization for emotional and mental maintenance. We need fun and enjoyment. That is why even in modern hunter-gatherer tribes the workload is less than half of ours and they all have full bellies and spend the rest of their time pursuing leisure activities and spending time with their family/community.

          (not accusing the person you are replying to, they are a victim too)

          • Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world
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            9 months ago

            Capitalist propaganda engine? Do you hear yourself? Say those words out loud and tell me your not a looney conspiracy theorist. What propaganda? XD

            Is it propaganda to say most mammals do not keep drinking milk after they’re babies? Is it also propaganda to say things like broccoli, kale, nuts and seeds are calcium alternatives? Is it propaganda that the vitamin D can be obtained from fish, sunlight, and liver? Explain what this propaganda machine is. 🤡

            • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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              9 months ago

              Capitalist propaganda tells us that we don’t “need” anything and that all of those things you’re talking about are luxuries. Food? That’s a luxury. Clothes? That’s a luxury too. Water? You better believe you don’t need that, you selfish little piggie!

              (also, tbh they didn’t specify the milk has to come from an animal. plant milk is milk!)

  • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I feel so bad for those without college degrees or trade certifications. They are absolutely fucked going forward.

    • Wodge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I feel so bad for those without college degrees vast inheritances or trade certifications huge trust funds. They are absolutely fucked going forward.

      Fixed it.

      • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Do you think everyone is poor? With the right training or college degree a path to moderate wealth is quite open. Trade jobs are especially in high demand and bring in a huge income.

        • Nudding@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          Trade jobs are especially in high demand and bring in a huge income

          Yeah dude, all those carpenters and plumbers are driving lambos.

          • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            In Colorado, they are driving $100K+ trucks and live in huge houses. Trade jobs pay close to six figures here, with a median salary of $97,860 per year.

              • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                9 months ago

                You don’t know what a trade job is? Carpenter · Carpet installer · Construction worker · Drafter · Framer · Home inspector · Housecleaner · Mason · Mechanical installer.

                • Nudding@lemmy.world
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                  9 months ago

                  I work in the trades. That’s how I know carpenters don’t make a hundred grand a year you fucking idiot. Or plumbers, or drywallers, or housecleaners.