I understand wanting to give people the tools to help themselves but it’s also important to keep in mind that this sort of logic has been used to punish the poor and victim blame for any excess pleasure expenditure.
Poverty is a symptom of a failing system and does not fall solely on the individual to escape.
You are assuming the people have the time to learn, the energy, even a kitchen with enough space to do it. Now if you’re just talking about like a frozen pizza sure whatever but if you’re talking about making it from scratch that’s a lot of fucking work not everyone has that kind of time
Who doesn’t ever have time to cook? Making pizza from scratch is maybe 30mins of work at most. To me it Sounds like you are infantilizing poor people into a position where they are too stupid to feed themselves. I have never in my life met a single person who couldn’t just have made pizza at home.
What does this even have to do with poverty?
I work a well paying office job. Often in evenings I just don’t have the energy to cook a decent meal, between caring for my family and getting a bit of time to myself.
If I lived in a big city, with their tiny little kitchens, it’d be even more frustrating.
Can I? Sure, it’s a simple recipe, I don’t need to be an experienced cook.
Can I make time? Sure, I can sacrifice some unwind time or family time.
Can I find the energy to motivate myself to sacrifice that time? Often not.
I imagine it gets exponentially worse with larger families, smaller apartments, and harder/more jobs.
Tbf sometimes you don’t have the energy or time to cook at home. When that happens pizza is one of the cheapest options. But not freakin $36 pizza that looks marginally better than Little Ceasars.
Make pizza at home. Stop falling into poverty traps.
I understand wanting to give people the tools to help themselves but it’s also important to keep in mind that this sort of logic has been used to punish the poor and victim blame for any excess pleasure expenditure.
Poverty is a symptom of a failing system and does not fall solely on the individual to escape.
You are assuming the people have the time to learn, the energy, even a kitchen with enough space to do it. Now if you’re just talking about like a frozen pizza sure whatever but if you’re talking about making it from scratch that’s a lot of fucking work not everyone has that kind of time
Who doesn’t ever have time to cook? Making pizza from scratch is maybe 30mins of work at most. To me it Sounds like you are infantilizing poor people into a position where they are too stupid to feed themselves. I have never in my life met a single person who couldn’t just have made pizza at home.
What does this even have to do with poverty? I work a well paying office job. Often in evenings I just don’t have the energy to cook a decent meal, between caring for my family and getting a bit of time to myself. If I lived in a big city, with their tiny little kitchens, it’d be even more frustrating.
I imagine it gets exponentially worse with larger families, smaller apartments, and harder/more jobs.
Tbf sometimes you don’t have the energy or time to cook at home. When that happens pizza is one of the cheapest options. But not freakin $36 pizza that looks marginally better than Little Ceasars.
Pizza is an exception in my book because I can never make it as good at home as they do in a restaurant kitchen.