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Who Abuses Food Delivery?

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Liz Wolfe | 5.22.2026 9:30 AM

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Who's failing at frugality? Though it's sort of lame to bring online discourse into newsletter format, this made the rounds earlier this week and is worth pushing back on:

This is bc they do not have the time or capacity to create home cooked meals. It's an issue countless ppl have tried to raise w leftists but big leftists online continue to shame/abuse poor ppl for being forced to rely on these services for meals, which act as a tax on the poor https://t.co/F3azUiucBJ

— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) May 20, 2026

It's wrong on a few levels. Poor people are not "forced" to rely on food delivery. Something voluntarily chosen should not be described as "a tax on the poor." If poorer people are routinely choosing more expensive food delivery vs. cooking at home, then it is possible that they are partially to blame for their plight. But the actual truth of the chart matters, and it's suspect at best:

Ok, let's settle down folks, and let's care about sourcing, yeah? Turns out this is from credit card data from one British Columbia credit union that markets itself as championing progressive values.
You'll be much more informed in the era of AI if you use it to check stuff. https://t.co/IS1js7sqlh

— Scott Winship (@swinshi) May 20, 2026

Many people have used this discourse cycle to argue that Gen Zers don't know how to scrimp and save and budget and grocery shop and cook and instead rot their brains watching three hours of TikTok a day. Others have argued that inability to cook for oneself is possibly more related to........

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