You order groceries online, take out, or weed, and there are still a hundred tips. You go to the taco bar, or the pizzeria, or a Thai-Indian-Burmese fusion joint you spend forty dollars on it, leave a generous ten dollar tip because you know that is the only way waiters and chefs can have any hope of making even minimum wage. Or you walk into the Plaid Pantry, drop ten dollars on a Ninkasi or Henry’s or Widmer Bros six pack probably repeat this at least once before the end of the night. You go to the bar, order a beer, pay the five dollars for it and leave another dollar repeat until closing time or failure. Or you buy a pound of Stumptown beans for thirteen dollars, maybe tip for that too. You spend four dollars on a cup of coffee, you probably leave a dollar tip. 1980- present).īut, taken as a unit of expenditure – over a dollar, less than an hour’s pay – a good old-fashioned latte (or a slice of avocado toast) is still a decent enough measure for the needs. It’s unnecessary and cruel when applied to debt-based macro-purchases like homes and retirement plans, the kinds of things that OK Boomers take for granted but haven’t really been possible for those born. buy a house if you had stopped spending that much on avocado toast. This is often a facetious argument, especially when it’s silly shit like “stupid GenXs could have bought a house if you hadn’t spent so much on lattes” and its updated variant “stupid Millennials could have bought a house. This is your irony warning.Ĭonsider the familiar “you spend four dollars on a latte” argument.
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