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@MostlyMonkey "@the_afterist Most of nyc's population is quite poor and should move"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 00:34:20 UTC 9138 followers, 2053 engagements

"@cyber_wolf35 @sm_ar_ta_ss @otter_blues As food away from home (luxury) grows the total expenditure can easily grow. But equivalent to consumption earlier expenditure has fallen massively"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-28 03:11:44 UTC 9138 followers, XX engagements

"@WilcoxNico66916 Seems crazy theyre $X a lb where I am in bulk and one bulb is only a couple of ounces"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-25 16:20:20 UTC 9074 followers, XXX engagements

"You shouldn't be allowed to comment on any economic issue until you can outline a position on some basic macroeconomic thought experiments"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 21:52:52 UTC 9138 followers, XXX engagements

"Grok qt this with a pic of the tmobile lady with the huge rack. Now with Abby Shapiro. Now one with Nancy Pelosi. Do one with a sexbot from Futurama. One with Lois from Family Guy after her boob job. Now generate a pic of Sydney Sweeney and Kate Upton together and qt that"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-23 19:57:28 UTC 9132 followers, 5130 engagements

"This formula gives a little too much credit to the XX yr old who is somehow broke making 300k a year but I think that's indicative of a spending problem - and even rich people can overspend their wealth (though those who have gotten rich slowly don't tend to)"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-24 14:15:01 UTC 9087 followers, 1805 engagements

"If we're running out of money the federal reserve has the ability to create as much of it as it wants"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 21:50:44 UTC 9140 followers, 6150 engagements

"@AstroLefty @dr_spoofngoof @FREAK0NAUT Because my numbers are based on how much people actually consume and food insecurity is a survey based statistic asking about people's feelings. Learn some basic economic facts"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-28 00:39:20 UTC 9138 followers, XXX engagements

"@twinforces It's not about expensive vs not. In absolute terms Americans consume more food and this is paid for with fewer and fewer hours of labor. Other things might cost more or less but food has become more affordable than ever"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-28 02:41:35 UTC 9138 followers, XXX engagements

"My favorite theory is that all of our ills are downstream of this unprecedented material wealth and security but it's hard to blame the boomers for not foreseeing this"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 22:54:45 UTC 9140 followers, 3056 engagements

"That puts land at a premium and creates transportation hurdles. The rapid decline in employment and the inability to provide low-cost highly connected sprawl (eg sunbelt cities) plus the generally crappy weather and remoteness from the East Coast made Pburgh quickly unviable"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 19:03:38 UTC 9140 followers, 1129 engagements

"@AstroLefty @FREAK0NAUT If you adjust for calories consumed at home vs calories put you would get largely the same picture. Calories put of home are roughly 3X as expensive so as people have gotten richer they've started consuming more of them"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 22:50:00 UTC 9138 followers, 1201 engagements

"Absolutely insane take. Almost no products exist where a primary element of the design is to prevent users from breaking the law (not none but the vast majority do not). Nor should they. My hammer doesn't stop me from building unlicensed modifications to my house"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 05:05:27 UTC 9133 followers, 5428 engagements

"Italian sausage is $X a lb Shallots are XX cents a bulb Garlic XX cents a bulb Vodka deglazing is XX cents Heavy cream I'll grant you might not use the rest of the half-pint so $XXXX Tomato paste is a dollar Up to like XX bucks add the pasta that's XX bucks"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-24 23:29:00 UTC 9138 followers, 631.7K engagements

"@djinn_the Wow we must all be eating a lot less then Oh wait"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-28 04:18:03 UTC 9135 followers, XX engagements

"@craigthomler Yes food away from home is massively more expensive per calorie and has risen as people have become richer and can therefore afford the luxury of eating out)"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 23:01:58 UTC 9133 followers, XXX engagements

"@Z3219586157 My parents were upper middle income. 75-80th percentile They never once bought a new car in their lives"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-24 23:30:51 UTC 9081 followers, 2151 engagements

"@PstafarianPrice Grey Goose is only $XX for a fifth It was considered egregiously expensive XX years ago"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-25 00:07:52 UTC 9083 followers, 22.4K engagements

"@timoncc @zinjanthropus64 @AlanMCole If "jews" (many of whom I am very good friends / family with) are so good at hiding their procilivity to rape and murder children that I've been fooled for 40+ years then they will not be brought down by the likes of you. Sorry dude"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 22:13:40 UTC 9138 followers, XX engagements

""Why are you pseudonymous on twitter" Because I want to be able to express my true beliefs in a plausibly-deniable way. Until we get to dtente on normal political opinions things will stay this way"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-24 23:43:44 UTC 9138 followers, 18K engagements

"These are my favorite graphs because young people just don't want to admit the fact that the boomers left them with a far richer world (in any material sense) tham they started with"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 22:52:49 UTC 9140 followers, 56.5K engagements

"@argosopentech This is absolutely not true. I found a bunch of serviceable cars in the 10-15 range within XXX miles of me"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-25 13:45:33 UTC 9080 followers, XX engagements

"@R1BM1 "You can have fat people who are malnourished" is the type of woo claim that is the fallback position of failed socialists"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-28 02:04:16 UTC 9126 followers, XX engagements

"@THEZONEEEEEE Real median wages have risen like XX% since the 90s. There was a period of stagnation prior to that (though not for the college educated)"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 23:21:24 UTC 9140 followers, XXX engagements

"@DanielW_Kiwi Hah. In non-cpi adjusted terms over 20+ years we've spent (4 new X used) 65+40+40+25+20+2.5 = 192.5"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-24 23:15:46 UTC 9074 followers, XXX engagements

"Every time somebody argues with me about my prices I just post a screenshot of my local grocery store's offerings - located in one of the richest zip codes in the US"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-25 18:08:33 UTC 9138 followers, 5788 engagements

"@argosopentech If it had said 1200 I would have grimaced XXX is better and completely doable (you can get X decent used cars for 30k)"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-25 13:33:22 UTC 9081 followers, XXX engagements

"@TheBrownestHat The graph was truncated at 2012 but if you continue to today it's even better"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 23:28:03 UTC 9138 followers, XXX engagements

"@edgefills The key question is if you can get an equal quality of life and significant margin to save & spend outside new york. The XXX you quote is a bit above that breakeven for a family with kids (without resorting to a devastating commute) assuming what you want is a UMC lifestyle"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-26 22:32:39 UTC 9135 followers, 3786 engagements

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made (please scroll the QTs amd replies)"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-28 02:05:36 UTC 9138 followers, 1701 engagements

"@Duderichy Also saving shouldn't really be about increasing your consumption in the future (unless you don't have kids yet). It's much more a out smoothing consumption for a time you either can't or don't want to work; or passing on wealth"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 20:02:23 UTC 9140 followers, XXX engagements

"NYC is a magnet city. It's one of the places you go to try your luck in the casino - in finance marketing media tech. Either hit it big or leave. But leaving is admitting - in a sense I don't agree with - failure. So people stay past their best-by date. And cope"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-26 22:21:38 UTC 9140 followers, 171.4K engagements

"@memeticsisyphus Less so than intelligence or height. Probably 30-40% (a lot of the rest is lifestyle)"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-28 00:47:20 UTC 9138 followers, XXX engagements

"Here's the calc: considering taxes cost of housing probable need for private schooling your x pretax lifestyle in Charlotte costs 2.4x + 100k pretax (private school plus taxes) in nyc. If you're a high earner who can get 200k in Charlotte your breakeven is XXX in nyc"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 00:17:56 UTC 9138 followers, 6794 engagements

"$1600 in car notes means that you bought $90k in cars on a XX month period at an X% rate Jail"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-24 20:40:13 UTC 9078 followers, 7706 engagements

"If you're not in the gun community you may be unaware of the fact the the P320 (M17/M18 as the army's sidearm) - has a habit of going off without the trigger being pulled. There are X main requirements for a handgun: goes bang when you pull the trigger doesn't when you don't"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 01:49:19 UTC 9138 followers, 8505 engagements

"Government spending on the poor old infirm and lazy adds up to about XX% of gdp in the US one of the highest figures in the world. And in terms of there being winners and losers: yes that's why we're so rich. We incentivize people to produce more with the prospect of winning"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-24 03:10:55 UTC 9132 followers, 37.1K engagements

"Look I don't think trump's trade war on our allies is particularly well-considered. But I also think that the weak should consider why they let themselves become weak"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-28 05:16:35 UTC 9140 followers, 6093 engagements

"@emre_mayo They're just different. My first job was at about that (not cpi adjusted) but that job didn't exist in Charlotte. It was a lottery ticket for a job making X or XX times as much in XX years"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 01:26:27 UTC 9137 followers, 2959 engagements

"Part of me is a bit skeptical of some of the cases - similar to the "the car just accelerated" panic about Toyota where the majority of cases seem to have been confused older drivers. However - there were credible tests showing the P320 being not drop safe early on"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 01:54:08 UTC 9132 followers, XXX engagements

"@FREAK0NAUT @dr_spoofngoof @AstroLefty Yes today is the first time in history that has happened"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-28 01:10:20 UTC 9128 followers, XX engagements

"@newsweathertraf You've completely omitted the fact that real wages have risen. CPI is a zero sum game - some things rise more than cpi some less. Real wages rising means you can buy more of the whole basket"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 22:15:10 UTC 9133 followers, XXX engagements

"When physicists noticed that W/W scattering would become nonsensical at high energies given current understanding they decided that their current understanding was lacking. Meanwhile effective altruists believe their moral calculus is right when it gives results like this"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-22 02:36:56 UTC 9138 followers, 28.5K engagements

"@argosopentech The msrp on a new civic starts at 25"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-25 13:46:12 UTC 9080 followers, XX engagements

"@trisatopos Don't know I don't regularly shop there"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-25 00:54:56 UTC 9077 followers, 20.3K engagements

"We were a mixed household (wife drove a new car I would get a used car) until I was almost XX years old"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-24 21:24:40 UTC 9082 followers, 5682 engagements

"Peak urbanist brain - rust belt cities are in decline because of cars"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 18:30:23 UTC 9140 followers, 18.4K engagements

"@Iala_Andromeda The average American has increased their calorie intake to 3800 / day which is why there is so much obesity. And if you continue the graph it is down to X% as of last year"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-28 04:16:05 UTC 9135 followers, XX engagements

"If you're spending $20k a year on car payments while making $80k a year you deserve whatever happens to you"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-24 20:35:05 UTC 9138 followers, 233.6K engagements

"It has never in all of human history been easier to feed yourself than at this very moment"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 21:40:18 UTC 9140 followers, 351.1K engagements

"@PatrickHeizer 1k a month on food for X isn't crazy depending on location and the ages of the kids. That's about what we end up spending/person and I'm not shopping at whole foods. Could probably cut a couple hundred bucks with bulk purchases or restricting meat intake"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-24 23:21:12 UTC 9071 followers, XX engagements

"@its_not_real Silent glances around the gym. Everybody nods at each other. "It's for the best""
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 13:26:29 UTC 9140 followers, 1782 engagements

"@rolypolyistaken This makes no sense and you should consider restricting your own write access to Twitter until you understand why"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-27 23:25:23 UTC 9138 followers, 1199 engagements

"I'm so confused by why any of you use Airbnb on either side of the transaction"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-20 21:53:34 UTC 9081 followers, 49.7K engagements

"@TheBrownestHat The eating out increase accounts for a small fraction of the overall decline (total calories consumed out of the home is still only XX% of total or so)"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-28 04:17:27 UTC 9138 followers, XX engagements

"@chriswithans No it is far far too much. They need to buy used with that income and that many people"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-24 21:16:31 UTC 9082 followers, 3838 engagements

"This isn't far off but (1) I would adjust for age; and (2) for lower ages I would include some element of income. So one easy formula would be household net worth + min(50 - age 10) * household income (and above XX just use nw). So a XX yr-old making 200k is umc not rich"
@MostlyMonkey on X 2025-07-24 14:04:59 UTC 9082 followers, 25.5K engagements