Suddenly a badger“To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.”
― Oscar Wilde
Jay 🆘@BadgerBadgerBadger This is an unfortunate headline for an article that is just about how the price of many breakfast staples specifically have increased, more than other foods.
It is not an earnest recommendation for the economically disadvantaged.
People will believe anything that goes viral on Mastodon. Confirmation bias and media literacy around here is terrible.
I saw a post go viral on here recently, a screenshot of a headline that read, "Why are women having fewer babies?", with the added text, "I don't know, why don't you ASK WOMEN??”
Googling and reading the article confirmed that they did, in fact, ask women.
Headlines aren't the whole story — I learned that in, I dunno, fourth grade?
Paul ChernoffFor the record I simultaneously believe that this article is being deliberately misrepresented, *and* I believe that billionaires shouldn't exist.