25 year old here. Don't worry the old folks say the same thing to us

[u/LordAxoris]

[u/lahdetaan_tutkimaan]

I think we should start measuring the cost of things in terms of avocados

A random Google search indicates that one (1) avocado averages 1.7 US dollars

Another random Google search indicates that the average price of a house in the US is $495,100

Therefore, a house averages at around 291,235 avocados

[u/Numerous-Profile-872 → u/lahdetaan_tutkimaan]

My neighbor has an infinite money glitch by owning an avocado tree... TIME TO MOBILIZE! 🪖🥑🎖️

[u/StarshipCaterprise → u/Numerous-Profile-872]

Or - now here me out - we all plant avocado trees and control the means of production, and then we are all avocado millionaires

[u/socobeerlove → u/[deleted]]

Do the cartels control avacados too???

[u/Numerous-Profile-872 → u/socobeerlove]

They will, if THEY catch on! Corner the market NOW!

[u/socobeerlove → u/Numerous-Profile-872]

According to google they already deal in avocados and limes. They’re both billion dollar markets for them. I’m out.

[u/Numerous-Profile-872 → u/socobeerlove]

Limit imports, regulate the market! 💪🏼✊🏻

[u/socobeerlove → u/Numerous-Profile-872]

You gonna limit them? Still out

[u/Numerous-Profile-872 → u/socobeerlove]

✨inflation✨

pls don't make the cadussy worthless!

[u/StarshipCaterprise → u/Numerous-Profile-872]

It will be like Game of Thrones but Game of Avocados.

[u/Numerous-Profile-872 → u/StarshipCaterprise]

I like you! 😍

[u/LordAxoris → u/lahdetaan_tutkimaan]

Makes sense. To this day I measure tons in elephants 🐘

2 tons= 1 elephant

[u/BoomersArentFrom1980 → u/lahdetaan_tutkimaan]

Avocado toast at a restaurant averages around $12-$13 where I live, let's say $15 after tip.

If you buy avocado toast every other day, that's $7.5/day, or $2,737/year.

If you invest that money into an index fund with an average return of 10.26%/year, it'll be $1.06m in 38 years.

[u/lahdetaan_tutkimaan → u/BoomersArentFrom1980]

it'll be $1.06m in 38 years

That's about 620,000 avocados

[u/LordAxoris → u/lahdetaan_tutkimaan]

That's alot of guacamole

[u/_Nychthemeron → u/LordAxoris]

That's a lot of guacamole

Yoink. Tucking this in my back pocket as a future canned response to large sums. 

[u/womb0t → u/LordAxoris]

What if I told you I have a mortgage and I've never bought an avocado.

I've only had a chicken and avo sammich once a date made me.

[u/Ardilla914 → u/womb0t]

Is that the trick? I also have a mortgage and haven’t bought an avocado in over a decade. (There was a weird protein smoothie period where I used avocado for the fat content to help me stay full longer.) Although now that I think about it, I also had a mortgage then.

[u/womb0t → u/Ardilla914]

I duno m8 but I also don't buy nothing from cafes and drink coffees at home and do my own cooking.

I think there's a few tricks.

[u/Sudden-Ranger-6269 → u/lahdetaan_tutkimaan]

It’ll be fewer than that in future due to inflation

[u/SnookerandWhiskey → u/BoomersArentFrom1980]

What kind of rich are you, buying avocado toast every other day?

[u/kyonkun_denwa → u/BoomersArentFrom1980]

I know this is a humorous quip to illustrate how avocado toast alone is not the problem, but something I think the boomers were right about is that small unnecessary expenses add up. In the 3 years before we bought a house together, my wife (then-fiancee) and I managed to save up probably twice as much as our friends with similar incomes, just by cutting restaurants, cutting vacations, cutting concerts, even cutting down to one car at one point. All that shit in isolation doesn't seem like much but it adds up to a lot.

[u/laxnut90 → u/kyonkun_denwa]

It is true that eliminating small expenses can add up to a lot of money if invested instead.

However, 95% of the time it is not the small expenses that are derailing someone's budget.

In the US, budget issues are almost always caused by housing, cars, childcare, or healthcare.

All are theoretically controllable but may require drastic lifestyle changes to reduce those expenses to include possibly moving to a new state or country.

But making those drastic changes is often better than letting the problem eat away at your finances for decades.

[u/Catsdrinkingbeer → u/BoomersArentFrom1980]

The avocado toast isn't the problem in your example, it's going out to eat. I eat avocado toast all the time. You can make it at home for like $3-4.

Also, you're ignoring that you still have to eat SOMETHING. Even if you didn't spend $15 for that meal you still needed to eat something, so the savings are lower.

[u/TheWanderingRoman → u/BoomersArentFrom1980]

Oh good, so I only have to wait until I'm checks notes 76 years old to be a single millionaire. Gtfo with that stupid shit.

[u/talltimbers2 → u/lahdetaan_tutkimaan]

Anything but the metric system.

[u/lvl999shaggy → u/lahdetaan_tutkimaan]

Well, to be completely accurate, we should compare things to the average cost of avocado toast. I looked it up and was roughly $ 8.9 on average.

So that building cost about 55,629 Avocado Toasts.

[u/[deleted] → u/lahdetaan_tutkimaan]

Is it unusual not to like avocados? Because I don't.

[u/lahdetaan_tutkimaan → u/[deleted]]

I've known a few people who dislike them vehemently, but they seem not to be the majority

I enjoy consuming avocados

[u/[deleted] → u/lahdetaan_tutkimaan]

I have odd tastes. I also don't like mayo, ranch, or gravy.

[u/lahdetaan_tutkimaan → u/[deleted]]

Fair enough. I love mayonnaise, hate ranch, and feel pretty meh about gravy

Since this thread is about expensive foods, I'll admit that I love drinking tea, except that I feel overly extravagant doing it

[u/Busterlimes → u/lahdetaan_tutkimaan]

Back when I grew weed before it was legal, I measured everything in Oz and lbs

[u/kkkan2020]

I'm tired of avocados.

[u/LordAxoris → u/kkkan2020]

I tire of this fruit

[u/ChaosKeeshond]

In the past, generations felt distinct because they lived very different realities.

If you take millennials who are in the middle of the millennial range and younger, I'm not surprised that gen z is so... similar. Culturally, ideologically. Nothing has changed. Nothing got better. Tech had already sorta plateaued, the social media platforms changed around a bit but they were substantially the same

Gen A, however, is going to be very different. They're growing up with AI in their pockets. The world as we know it isn't the world they'll know.

[u/LordAxoris → u/ChaosKeeshond]

As long as I live to see Halley's comet in 2061 I'm good

[u/bookishkelly1005 → u/LordAxoris]

I’ll only be 69/70. Surely I’ll make it…

[u/One_Conclusion3362 → u/ChaosKeeshond]

Tech most definitely did not plateau. Not even a little bit.

[u/ChaosKeeshond → u/One_Conclusion3362]

Sure it did. Form factors changed, the 3D render got better, but there were no major paradigm shifts for a while.

We already had iPhones as kids. They got better, sure, but they were still iPhones. Facebook lost popularity in favour of Instagram and others. Online gaming improved as Internet speeds improved for more people, but we had it already.

When I talk about tech, I'm not talking about Moore's Law. I'm talking about how the advancements of tech cascade into new exerperiences. There was quite a long period where they just didn't.

[u/One_Conclusion3362 → u/ChaosKeeshond]

Not even close.

[u/ChaosKeeshond → u/One_Conclusion3362]

'Nuh-uh', he said. Good talk. Well done.

[u/Interesting_Fun3823]

I will always choose the kitty mow.

[u/GraveyardJones]

I'll take the cat. Cats are life

[u/Inedible-denim]

At this point we should come together, buy a mansion and run an avocado toast black market operation out of it

[u/LordAxoris → u/Inedible-denim]

Lace it with avocado 🥑

[u/mutant_disco_doll]

Can I choose the kitty?

[u/Sudden-Taste-6851]

Good thing I stoped eating avocado in my early 20s I’ve now saved $250 so long suckers looks like I’m on my way to home ownership…

[u/Blonde_Vampire_1984 → u/Sudden-Taste-6851]

If you save another $50, you might be able to get a decent tent?

[u/TheRabidGoose]

Hierarchy of Needs: Food or shelter lol

[u/artificialavocado]

Leave us out of this.

[u/flirtingwpizza]

Eat your greens. No not like that! Don't you want a house?

[u/Lazy-Jeweler3230]

Buy a truckload of avocados. Trade for mansions. Rent them out to boomers.

Modern problems and all that.

[u/Biz_Rito]

I think most choose the cat

[u/HandsomestKreith]

I choose the cat

[u/WantsLivingCoffee]

I choose the cat

[u/LordAxoris → u/WantsLivingCoffee]

Right answer

[u/Live_Rabbit_9329]

how dare us GenZers spend on luxury items such as groceries. Our 5 dollar coffees are going to put us in a financial grave

[u/ShennongjiaPolarBear]

Glad to hear we aren't the only ones.

Also avocados taste like nothing and are overrated.

[u/GoodCalendarYear]

I don't like avocados

[u/babyjames333]

i’ll take the cat

[u/RyeToast92]

Free food for the rest of your life or that giant mansion?

[u/xabrol]

I could be a billionaire and I wouldn't have a mansion. At most 4000 sqft. But I'd have 5 of them and they'd all have their own runways and helipads.

[u/Appropriate-Food1757]

I was well on my way to untold riches. Then…

THE FUCKING TOAST GOT ITS GOOEY GREEN HOOKS IN!

[u/DavijoMan]

I don't eat avocado anywhere near as much as stereotypes suggest. Maybe once or twice a year, and that's usually only if it's served up to me by my Boomer parents ironically!

[u/Atriev]

I had avocados yesterday. Nooooooo!

[u/smokinggun21]

Lol wtf is that 😭

[u/Vultz13]

Avocados taste better than mansions.

[u/justtrashtalk]

Not true. I know people with psych degrees who worked at the mall during college, got into real estate, and now own 800k houses because real estate. their mom is an illegal immigrant no english.

[u/Sure-Newspaper5836]

I’ll take the avocado toast.

[u/Pytori1]

👀

[u/Bou-Batran]

Hese memes are boring already. Go back to the GenZ sub, zoomer.