Wall Street Journal Suggests Poor People ‘Skip Breakfast’ To Save Money, Gets Roasted On Twitter

Don’t worry, fellow poors! The Wall Street Journal has a solution to our financial problems. Just skip breakfast. It’s that simple. Start the day hungry, work for a corporation that doesn’t care about you at all, and don’t question the government at all. It’s that simple!

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Twitter is buzzing after The Wall Street Journal published an article suggesting people start skipping breakfast in order to save money. A tone-deaf and widely mockable take.

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Sure, the cost of breakfast foods, especially recently with eggs, has gone up. And yes, you could probs save a significant amount of money by not eating breakfast anymore. But also, we could be paid a living wage that increases with inflation so we don’t have to make ridiculous decisions that are completely unnecessary. 

Obviously, a take like this is going to get roasted on Twitter. You don’t have to be an economist to understand people are struggling, and telling those folks to skip a meal is a lukewarm take worth taking a hot dump on. So…

13 tweets roasting The Wall Street Journal for suggesting poor people skip breakfast to save money

1. I mean, that’d be nice.

2. Hard to see where the WSJ is coming from on this one. 

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3. Gen Z is going to make the avocado extinct 

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4. WSJ is crazy for this one.

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5. It’s a foolproof system. Why stop at breakfast?

6. Stop it.

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7. “Save money by eating your children.”

8. Off with their heads.

9. What exactly did the Wall Street Journal think would happen? I mean, I’m sure they got clicks, but at what cost?

10. I’m sure Andrew Tate needs a job…

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12. Hmmm…

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If it hasn’t become apparent to you that the separation of wealth has made certain people extremely out of touch, I hope this sheds some light on it. The future looks pretty bleak if we can’t do something about this.

So, in the meantime, no more eggs and coffee. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Go live the American dream. Or, at least enjoy some of the scraps that have been left. Just don’t have them for breakfast.