The "dollar menu" doesn't exist anymore. Fast food costs the same as a sit-down restaurant used to. A combo meal at McDonald's is $15. You're paying restaurant prices to eat in a parking lot from a bag. The value proposition is gone, only the habit remains.
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"Brunch Culture" is an expensive scam. You're paying $28 for eggs and toast served between 10 AM and 2 PM only, with a 90-minute wait and a dress code. It's breakfast with a markup and a time restriction. You're not being sophisticated, you're being gouged on a schedule.
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We've normalized the idea that "buying a house" requires your parents to die first. Millennials are inheriting homes in their 40s because that's the only way to enter the market. We've turned generational wealth into the only path to stability, and called it normal.
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"Professionalism" is just the art of staying "calm and polite" while a corporation slowly drains your soul and your bank account. It’s the "civilized" way to accept that you’ll never be able to afford the life your parents had with half the education you have.
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