It’s not healthy, but it’s cheap: a hamburger at McDonald’s — €1.40, if I buy fries with it, €3.50.
3.50€ for a meal isn’t cheap and nothing a poor person can afford on a regular basis. I can cook a great meal for under 2€ that doesn’t consist of trash. What a detached asshole.
McDonald’s is not cheap food, it’s fast food. I don’t expect this cunt to know the difference.
The 1,40 burgers are barely enough to satiate a child, even with fries.
A menu that can fill an adult, that’s 13-14€ easily. And that’s still just one meal.
The quality 3 meals a day I consume and make at home average 5€ per portion. resulting in 450€ food budget per person per month, I generally go for white label products if the quality is good enough.
That’s 900€ a month for 2 people for food alone (this was 300ish before COVID).
850-1000€ for entry level 1 bedroom rent here, brings us to 1750-1900€ a month for a roof and food, another 75-100 for electricity (and then you have to be very usage conscious) brings us to 1825-2000€ a month, add required insurance (fire/health/accidents) for another 50-100€ brings us to 1875-2100€ a month.Now, a phone and internet sub are pretty much a requirement these days, so say the cost of a cheap phone, internet and gsm abbo combine to be another 50€ a month per person.
So we’re at 1975-2200€ a month to cover the very basic living expenses for a 2 person household.
You’d need to have one person with a decent wage or two people working minimum wage to barely get by.
Any surprise or extra cost and you’re in the red.
Eating McDonnalds to cover breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, you’d need over 2000€ for food alone.
That’s not even enough to satiate you. For that you need to buy a menu which is about 10€ here in Germany. That’s not cheap at all.
I never hear anything about Austria. And when I do it is this asshole?
I am gonna take a guess at the dude has never seen what fast food did to Americans. Because he’s as stupid as his statement.
This is another way to tell people to go kill themselves.
Basically yes.
Are you enjoying your capitalism?
What on earth happened to all the small businesses in my “poor” rural village? Oh right, that pedestrian unfriendly stroad next to the freeway with the Walmart and all the fast food restaurants sucking up the village’s life force happened.
I propose that we should eat this austrian chancellor instead.
Idiot. That’s neither healthy nor sustainable. What’s his vision for his country?
Bleeding it dry? There was a thread in Mastodon recently proving there’s a massive supermarket cartel driving prices in Austria higher than in surrounding countries and the government took the side of the supermarkets.
The vision of his party is to keep everything the same, they’re conservatives
Low-income families should eat long pig taken from the rich.
Are you banking on a prion disease to take them out? Because cannibalism is a major risk factor for that.
P sure you just avoid the brain and it’s fine
Brain and spine. Just for the sake of clarity.
Not sure how things are in Austria but where I live fast food is really expensive for someone strapped for cash
“So what does it mean that a child doesn’t get a hot meal in Austria? Do you know what the cheapest hot meal in Austria is? It’s not healthy, but it’s cheap: a hamburger at McDonald’s — €1.40, if I buy fries with it, €3.50. Now someone is seriously claiming that we live in a country where parents can’t afford this meal for their child,” he said.
“If I have too little money, I go to work more,” he added in the video, which was filmed during a wine-and-cheese event near Salzburg — with no burgers in sight — his conservative People’s Party confirmed to Plus24.
i hope he chokes to death on a piece of rotten cheese in his wine cave
€3.50 every day would be €108.50 per month for a single person eating a single meal per day
that’s way more than i spend at the supermarket and i eat two meals per day that are way more filling and actually healthy lmao
Even disregarding this being a horrible choice for your child’s nutrition that’s a pretty bad deal, you could get much more food by buying cheap brands in the supermarket.
This guy is amazingly out of touch, normally conservative EU politicians have the sense to refrain from such statements even if probably most of them believe the same.
mcdonalds is not cheap though
Fast food is now treated as a “expensive night out” for us. It’s like $30 for standard cost.
Crazy how fucked the economy has gotten pretty much everywhere lol
: “But look at the SHAREHOLDER VALUE!”It’s inflation. This is simply what happens when the governments print money.
no, this is what happens monetary policy is the only tool in the neoliberal toolbox, corporate profiteering is unchecked, and 2 million workers die off to keep the rent checks coming.
“Communism is when no food”
Capitalism:
His face is so incredibly punchable
I hate that ghouls like this are allowed to walk freely and live comfortable lives…
That’s all I have to say on this matter.
Strike the “comfortabl lives” bit and I agree
Who tf can afford to eat at McDonalds, have you seen their prices lately?
His opinion used to be much more widespread 10 or 15 years ago. Now poor people can’t even eat fast food without being judged for wasting money.
He’s not just a capitalist pig, he’s an out of touch capitalist pig.
