The Burger Math Defense

How can some Americans claim they are poor? I live for 300 USD a month here in Poland and I'm fine. You fags have welfare and foodstamps and you still claim that you struggle to live there. What's the dillio? Stop spending so much on useless shit. A decent burger is 15 dollars. There are 3 meals in a day, that's 45 dollars a day. That's 1,350 dollars a month just in burgers, not counting any other expenses.

An anonymous imageboard thread shows a bowl of sliced food beside an argument about living cheaply in Poland. A reply humorously calculates that eating a $15 burger for all three daily meals would cost $1,350 per month, undermining the original poster’s claim that Americans simply waste money. It is used as a sarcastic reaction to simplistic budgeting advice and culture-war arguments about poverty.

• @eternalclassic / 58235 2024-10-01