Recent content by Gogf

Spending 50% of your weekly food budget on something totally unnecessary is a pretty gigantic mistake to make, though. I can't imagine anyone could do that without realizing.

I've been thinking a lot about this and I really don't think living on a $20/week budget would be that different from how I normally eat. I think one of the major differences would be a serious restriction of my options at every meal because I can't let anything go to waste. Lack of planning and...

They're not "necessary" unless you actually had some sort of a mental health condition that they helped resolve. Either way, the point of this thread is supposed to be that a person can survive on $20/week for food without serious problems. Including your cats in that figure because they're...

Yes, some people definitely can't afford to have children.

Breakfast is a good point; I don't eat breakfast and sometimes forget it exists. But that's easily rectified by adding, say, oatmeal to the budget I recommended. As far as the other two points go: you can survive on about $10/week eating just rice and beans without real problems. I can't...

1. Use the Cost of Living Adjustment (see OP). 2. $20 is enough basically anywhere. You could survive on rice and beans if you needed to without catastrophic nutritional problems. Spend $10 (which is WAY more than it will really cost you) getting enough rice and beans for a week as a base, and...

Okay, but pets are a luxury. If you can't afford to spend more than $20/week on food, you probably can't afford to have cats, especially if that money is coming from food stamps.

It's very unclear what the first sentence of the second paragraph is supposed to mean, and your entire post seems to hinge on that, but I will respond to what I think is the gist of what you are trying to say. "Gun control" is not a game about finding the optimal number of privately-owned...

Has the quality of discourse at this forum really declined this much since I left (despite this apparently being the "more civilized" result of the OT bifurcation), or am I just viewing the past through rosy-eyed glasses? If you want to have a discussion with me, Aroddo, you will have to...

"You cannot make an omelet without breaking a few eggs" -Joseph Stalin (paraphrasing Maxmillian Robespierre) The "disease" (to use your metaphor) of capitalism can only, according to dogmatic Marxism, be treated by replacing the capitalist mode of production with the socialist. Such an event...

Dialectical materialism?

I am well aware I was "avoiding" your question. It wasn't a relevant question, so I didn't answer it. It's also an impossible question to answer because it's too contingent. I do not know exactly what kind of totalitarian things the government might do or how other people might react. Like I...

No one is suggesting that Marxists are a homogenous group, merely that they all share a common belief, that being Marxism.

Unless you're satisfied with the Keynesian status quo I'm not sure why you think that matters if you're really a Marxist, though! "Heighten the contradictions."

This is what used to be known as "equatism" around here! You're presuming that certain people are other people. Don't. I take no responsibility for other people's views.