Holy shit, your anecdote negates everything! Two person household, no kids! Only 50 hours? Congrats! You are NOT WHO THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT.

Why do people seem to think that “I made this work” translates to “Everyone can make this work.”

Resident physician and an attorney can dedicate 5 hours to cooking meals

If a resident physician and an attorney can dedicate 5 hours to cooking meals, anyone can

You had an entire day free to cook, dude. If you were working seven days a week, even if only for four hours a day, what would that marathon cooking schedule look like? Keep in mind, we haven’t yet invented transporters, so you have to burn time getting to and from your job every day, and you have to keep up with…

Oh god your comment is insufferable and I am 0% surprised to find you’re an attorney.

You have Sunday off? You don’t have a physical job either. I’m an attorney and have one LeCreuset dutch oven to use to braise my short ribs.

i like how he’s threatening an independent run, as if there’s a huge subset of voters clamoring for jim fucking webb to be president. “Hmmm I like the idea of a fiscal democrat who ALSO is uncomfortable with black voters AND wants to bomb the shit out of the Middle East. Jim Webb’s my guy.”

Heh he thinks 50 or 80 hours a week is a lot. Everyone point and laugh

Wow, seriously? You really have no clue. “Poor people just need to sacrifice the tiny amount of leisure available to them, work harder, and prioritize better?” That is phenomenally out-of-touch. Read this.

You do realize you just bragged about your pressure cooker, bread maker, and storage availability, right? I’m not commenting on the inclusion of beef choices, because chicken is all most people affected in this thread can afford.

You do realize that lots of poor people work those schedules or worse right? Single Mom’s with 3 jobs envy your surplus of free time.

That’s really awesome that 2 professional, college-educated, middle-class people who live together have the time and where-withal to buy $120 in meat and food to cook in their $80 pressure cooker. Good for you, man!

That’s assuming everyone has a) a working oven, stove, and whatever other gadgets necessary to make everything, b) the storage space for meal planning, c) the consecutive time to make so much in one sitting, d) the access to the food in the first place, and e) the knowledge with which to do those things. My spouse is…

You just ignored what everyone else had to say about lack of skills, time, and energy, didn’t you? There’s also something the poor face that you and your white collar wife don’t: decision fatigue.

Yep. This is why “I can find one thing that’s healthy and cheaper than this other thing! Poor people are just lazy!” doesn’t work. Sure, if you have the time to spend comparison-shopping every single thing on your grocery list, and then prepare all those home-cooked meals in advance, then maybe you can pull off a…

I have a right to pay women less because it’s a sincerely held religious belief! California may be a heathen society that ignores god’s will, but I am not.

I hate the detractors complaints about it, “Oh wahhhh it’ll be less competitive now that we have to pay people equal wages. Someone think of the business titans who control wages!!!111!!”

Re: “I think we’re getting to the point where people just find facts and reality itself offensive.”

Even. If. Vaccines. Did. Cause. Autism. Which. They. Do. Not. An. Autistic. Child. Is. Still. An. Alive. Child.