No, the price of food is what's busting your budget.
- I read that headline, and your comment, and immediately inferred WSJ is victim-blaming people just for eating breakfast. The sheer audacity of it...
- The article is talking about factors going into why the prices are high.
  
  is it the greed
  or is it the record profits

was it time to blame the poors for their own poverty again?
- LOL you can't afford coffee
  -wsj
  
  I can't believe I'm saying this, but... to be fair to the Wall Street Journal, it read like an article with basic factual information. It even talked about why this is bad for Trump.

$1/week to read stupid articles online?
The savings add up...
- Wait, the Wall Street Journal is only $4/month? That's much cheaper than access to any other online newspaper that I've seen, and I'm pretty sure from memory that their paper subscription is relatively expensive compared to that of most newspapers.
  investigates
  Ah. That's just the promotional rate for the first year. Apparently then it goes up to $39/month.

The funny thing is this article is still a big upgrade from their previous edition.

Prices won't effect me. I have heroin & doritos for breakfast.
- You disgust me, no salsa‽
  
  OMG!!! I gotta try that. Habanero!

my breakfast is limited to only 4 avocado toasts and a venti cappuccino from starbucks, so i should be ok
- https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU01110205
  Avocado prices appear to be remarkably volatile. I had no idea.
  I guess you can't really preserve an avocado much, so you can't do much to spread out time of consumption from times where there's a lot of supply relative to demand to times when there's only a little.
  kagis
  https://www.wgbh.org/news/international-news/2024-12-23/why-trumps-tariffs-on-mexico-would-mean-higher-avocado-prices-at-the-grocery-store
  Of all the products that would be affected by President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on Mexico, avocados stand out: 90% of avocados consumed in the U.S. are imported. And almost all of those imports come from Mexico.
  Trump has said he plans to impose a blanket tariff of 25% on imports from Mexico and Canada, along with an additional 10% tax on goods from China.
  Regardless of these potential price increases, however, people in the U.S. love their avocados and they’re willing to pay more. Avocado consumption tripled in the U.S. between 2000 and 2021.
  “Given that avocado is a staple of our consumption here, I would say that the elasticity is not very high, meaning that even with a big increase in price, consumption is not going to change that much,” says Luis Ribera, a professor and extension economist in the agricultural economics department at Texas A&M University.
  
  Feeling very fortunate to live in SoCal where avocados are a local crop, even grow in backyards.

Hahaha I don't eat breakfast cause I am a poor pleb.

Not for me, my breakfast is 2 granola bars and a snack size apple juice. I dont really like breakfast anyway so it seems to work for me.

Just go to Starbucks and grab any of the 15 cups of coffee in pickup area and go. Imagine buying coffee when Starbucks exists
- The downside to that approach is that the coffee it gets you is from Starbucks.
  
  Yeah it's shit coffee but think of all the oj you can buy with the savings!

My breakfast is water and a piece of cookie at 10 am. So not a big expense.
- Cookie dough has eggs, and avian flu has been pretty bad for egg prices.

I mean, I don't drink coffee or orange juice, but I could see how other people would be impacted.
- Separately, bird flu has egg prices up again. Which may or may not affect you.

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