Everyone knows that the economy continues to struggle, and millennials—saddled with student loans and soaring cost-of-living numbers—are taking a significant brunt of a sluggish economy. But at least one periodical is daring to wonder: Maybe the economy is amazing, and millennials are enjoying its astronomical fruits?
Late Monday night, culinary rag Bon Appétit took to Twitter with a pretty mundane observation that had just one slight syntactical error that had at least a few millennials wondering what they were doing wrong and if their friends are significantly better off than they’d been led to believe. See if you can spot it.
The average millennial spends $96 billion on food. Here's how we break it down https://t.co/VoUan99Tbq pic.twitter.com/nYr7c2Yfan
— Bon Appétit (@bonappetit) September 18, 2017
OK, so, that’s not exactly how “averages” work. Harmless enough mistake (what they meant to say was that millennials as a whole spend about $96 billion on food) but Twitter had fun with it anyway.
This is why we need consumer finance education in high school. There's no way this is a sustainable household budget. https://t.co/g0NIjZypwh
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) September 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/joe___nelson/status/909873028644900866
I am so stupid why did I spend all my billions on avocado I had so many billions https://t.co/EMzE4wxsI6
— Ellen Broad (@ellenbroad) September 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/_timothyn/status/909863095668895745
Food $96 Billion
Data $150
Rent $800
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying https://t.co/dCfFb4CRKr— Star Platinum Drewsco (@Dezdrew) September 18, 2017
For their part, Bon Appét took the ribbing in stride.
*Sips coffee* This is why you don't tweet at 1 a.m. https://t.co/NWagrQFNwi
— Bon Appétit (@bonappetit) September 18, 2017
