{"id":55963,"date":"2017-05-25T22:42:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T15:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/so-what-if-the-poor-buy-avocados-everybody-deserves-a-little-luxury-emma-brockes\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T22:50:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T15:50:14","slug":"so-what-if-the-poor-buy-avocados-everybody-deserves-a-little-luxury-emma-brockes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/so-what-if-the-poor-buy-avocados-everybody-deserves-a-little-luxury-emma-brockes\/","title":{"rendered":"So what if the poor buy avocados \u2013 everybody deserves a little luxury | Emma Brockes"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHow dehumanising it is when rich people tell those further down the economic food chain they shouldn\u2019t have any small pleasuresI have ordered avocado toast a few times in my life, and its mark-up has never particularly appalled me. It is bad value in the same way Starbucks coffee is bad value, or a $20 lipstick, or any of the other extravagances that fly beneath the radar even of those who are trying to save money.This month, these items again fell under the moralising gaze of people higher up the economic food chain. \u201cWhen I was trying to buy my first home,\u201d said Tim Gurner, a multimillionaire property developer, \u201cI wasn\u2019t buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each.\u201d He joined Jason Chaffetz, a Republican congressman, who told low-income Americans in March they should forego smartphones in order to buy health insurance, and those who ask why people \u201con welfare\u201d insist on smoking. Avocado toast widens the criticism to a larger income bracket, but the principle is the same: you are where you are not for any structural reasons, but because you are a feckless individual. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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How dehumanising it is when rich people tell those further down the economic food chain...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-eyD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55017,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/multimillionaire-property-magnate-in-australia-says-millennials-should-stop-buying-avocado-in-order-to-buy-dream-home\/","url_meta":{"origin":55963,"position":0},"title":"Multimillionaire property magnate in Australia says millennials should stop buying avocado in order to buy dream home","date":"May 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Tim Gurner is a 35-year-old Australian property tycoon who has almost half a billion dollars in the bank\r \r Source : cnbc.com\r Read more...Multimillionaire property magnate in Australia says millennials should stop buying avocado in order to buy dream home","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":54987,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/stop-spending-money-on-avocados-good-idea-ill-have-a-house-deposit-by-2117-rhiannon-lucy-cosslett\/","url_meta":{"origin":55963,"position":1},"title":"Stop spending money on avocados? 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