sleeper;1243929 wrote:Let's put it this way. Worthless, lazy, POS fat slob #1 earns $10,000 a year. He normally spends all $10,000 eating cheeseburgers because the government pays for everything else he needs and he won't get off his ass. The price of cheeseburgers pre-drought is $1 a cheeseburger at 2,000 calories per burger. He eats 1 a day and that's all he eats. Drought comes, price of cheeseburger increases to $2, and fat lazy slob POS #1 can now only afford 1 half cheeseburger per day at 1,000 calories. Fat lazy slob POS #1 will now be forced to either A)earn more income to maintain being a fat lazy slob POS, or B) eat less cheeseburgers and lose weight. We can throw A out the window since lazy fat POS #1 is too stupid to get another job, so we default to B.
Is it the math you are having trouble with or are you just arguing for the sake of arguing?
Apparently, what I'm having a hard time with is explaining my point in terms you can grasp. I'll try again.
Though a quick caveat: Before asking if math is someone's problem, you should probably make sure yours is in order, so you don't have to add a post changing the number of days in a year to avoid a basic arithmetic error in your prior post.
Also, under the current circumstances, you can still sit on your butt all day and make more than $1 per day. Hell, panhandlers make more than that in a month for sitting behind a sign, not to mention the government assistance.
But let's keep with the $10,000 number. For the quantity of food consumed, the person could buy a week's worth of carrots or broccoli for that price. Hell, even buying boxes of macaroni and cheese would probably be healthier (not sure), but I know it'd be more filling ... and possibly cheaper, depending on the brand you buy.
The cheeseburger is within their budget, but so are other, more healthy things. As such, it is still their responsibility to eat healthy food, no matter what the price of food is. I'm not saying they will. I'm saying it's their responsibility ... not the responsibility of mother nature, or anyone else ... to make sure they eat healthy foods.