If plant protein is cheaper then meat doesn’t need to be a staple, you can make high protein meal plans and diets without any meat while also saving money. Therefore, it’s a luxury. People eat meat because it’s tasty and familiar, not because it’s necessary.
“If it’s possible to get a job that pays more, then people who can’t afford to pay rent should just get one. Therefore, complaining about rent prices is invalid and people are just doing it because they don’t want to be bothered to get a better job. People stay where they are in life because it’s comfortable and familiar.” <- That’s about what you sound like right now. It is characteristically no different than bootstraps individualism.
But it’s not possible to just get a job that pays more? People are stuck with the jobs they have in most cases.
But anyone can stop eating meat whenever they want. The comparison is nonsensical.
What would be more fair is to compare it to saying “It’s possible to save money by not spending it on luxuries, so people who can’t afford to pay rent should stop spending money on luxuries.” I’m also not even saying that. People deserve luxury, bread and roses, etc. I’m only saying that meat should be acknowledged as a luxury, to properly frame it in the discussion.
You know in years of being on lemmygrad, I’ve managed to avoid need for the block feature, but I might finally try it because this is getting genuinely time-wasting to have this keep popping up in my notifications with individualist arguments and individualist representations of reality that ignore/deny how systems work.
Wrong, vegan protein is cheaper.
Why reply to me with such a non-sequitur?
If plant protein is cheaper then meat doesn’t need to be a staple, you can make high protein meal plans and diets without any meat while also saving money. Therefore, it’s a luxury. People eat meat because it’s tasty and familiar, not because it’s necessary.
“If it’s possible to get a job that pays more, then people who can’t afford to pay rent should just get one. Therefore, complaining about rent prices is invalid and people are just doing it because they don’t want to be bothered to get a better job. People stay where they are in life because it’s comfortable and familiar.” <- That’s about what you sound like right now. It is characteristically no different than bootstraps individualism.
But it’s not possible to just get a job that pays more? People are stuck with the jobs they have in most cases.
But anyone can stop eating meat whenever they want. The comparison is nonsensical.
What would be more fair is to compare it to saying “It’s possible to save money by not spending it on luxuries, so people who can’t afford to pay rent should stop spending money on luxuries.” I’m also not even saying that. People deserve luxury, bread and roses, etc. I’m only saying that meat should be acknowledged as a luxury, to properly frame it in the discussion.
You know in years of being on lemmygrad, I’ve managed to avoid need for the block feature, but I might finally try it because this is getting genuinely time-wasting to have this keep popping up in my notifications with individualist arguments and individualist representations of reality that ignore/deny how systems work.