every so often i remember the “cooking is more expensive than takeout” crowd and am amazed at their lack of critical thinking (there’s no world in which ingredients + labor could be cheaper than ingredients alone), and also just curious what other aspects of their lives are totally fucked by their misconceptions of reality.
as a data point, i’ve frozen 160+ servings of food for postpartum. on average each serving has cost about $1.50 in ingredients.
it's so funny that the "delivery is cheaper than cooking, actually" people just apparently don't understand the concept of simply having ingredients in your house
Cash for clunkers was one of the worst things to ever happen to America and that's not recognized enough.
It basically took 90% of easily reparable cars with no computers in them off the roads. The financial burden alone on the lower half of American society is in the billions.