More and more people are more cognizant of their alcohol consumption, and like calories - it can be hard to eyeball them compared to the "standard unit" (14g alcohol).
I build an iOS app (https://quenchai.app) that uses a carefully constructed Multimodal LLM workflow to convert photos to standard drinks and track consumption over time.
Did you know a standard margarita is ~2.5 standard drinks and a light beer is ~0.8?
This is an absolutely ridiculous claim, it's very clear that you have never met anyone with an allergy (or cared to ask someone about their experience if you have)
Actually I have them in my family (epi pen and all), but I've met many more people with false allergies that use them to justify disordered eating habits or something else (hilariously, I've seen someone use their allergies to try and micromanage what everyone else around them can eat, down to how their spouse's coffee is brewed).
Consumption decisions made by individuals will never solve this problem, as it is more of a problem with labor/industrial regulation and corporate governance.
This is borderline antagonistic. Do you think that the majority of lower-income people who do not have large savings are in this situation due to disproportionately high discretionary spending?
We live in a consumer society. The messages pulling us to buy things are pervasive and highly effective. Our self-worth has been successful tied to those cars and iPhones by the companies who sell them. It's a real phenomenon that when a low income person gets a windfall they might buy a TV. But there are a number of totally legitimate reasons for that. Besides the marketing, money has a totally different meaning when you are low income. It's not some safety blanket you can store up for later. It's more like evaporating pools of water on a hot day. It's going to go somewhere, and soon. It's pretty rational to have it go towards something you know you or your family will enjoy instead of the next bill collector. The bill collectors will never be satisfied anyway.
The post you replied to was a little snarky, but there is some debate here, a lot of which boils down to financial options and “financial literacy.” For example:
> Poor people do have surplus money to save, find Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo. Even people living on less than $1 per day spend money on many nonessential items such as alcohol, tobacco, and televisions.2 And when poor people increase their earnings, they spend only two-thirds of their windfall on food. These findings suggest that poor people are not just living hand to mouth; they do have funds to save.
So the question is, what financial products could help the poor lay away some of those funds for the future?
If you live a supper shitty live then you will try to escape from it and if there is no way to do so practically doing so mentally is a way. Like by drinking, smoking and watching TV.
Also drinking and smoking are drugs. Stopping taking them is hard. Especially if they make you feel like your live became barley bearable when taking them.
I'm not saying that this doesn't mean that thinks would be better if different but the way you post it and the quote kinda imply that it's fully their own fault for not being more clever. It's like saying "it's fully your own fault that you can't stop the addiction you have without proper help and which is one of the view thinks in your live which don't total suck". I.e. it's quite detached from the reality of how poverty, addiction and similar work.
Also just to clarify I do not mean addiction where you take super high amounts all the time. I mean the more common wide spread forms of addiction where you frequently take smallish amounts of it and just can't stop doing it. I also was somewhat imprecise as I mixed up that and escapeism in a wishi washi way.
> I mean the more common wide spread forms of addiction
I think you are describing compulsion.
"Addiction" is generally reserved for actions which have a detrimental effect on everyday living (like the inability to hold a job, keep friends, or stay out of jail).
> Antifa is not an interconnected or unified organization, but rather a movement without a hierarchical leadership structure, comprising multiple autonomous groups and individuals
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