The only thing these people do themselves is scrub their balls in the shower and chew food. Everything else is managed by a maid and butler and chauffeur
This person hasn't thought about how much money they spend on anything in years
Even if I were a billionaire I'd never spend $200 on one meal. wtf is wrong with people
eat beans :bean:
:porky-happy: How about beans individually wrapped in gold leaf
It does nothing for the taste, probably the opposite. Just sheer ostentatious wankery
The best part is most of that shit only has $2-$4 worth of gold in it.
ehh. I think "food as art" is a thing. don't want to start a struggle session though. I respect your perspective.
as the rat dad from ratatouille once said: food is fuel, now shut up and eat your garbage
Food can be art. Not sure why that means it should be $200 though.
for the same reason other art can cost that much, like tickets to a concert. setting aside silly liberal notions of supply and demand, from a Marxist perspective the amount of labor that goes into producing the art is high.
200 for a meal - per head - is 10 x the cost of a normal meal (being generous, 20 is on the high end of what I'd personally be comfortable paying for a meal per head). Maybe just 5 x if you're treating yourself, maybe.
I'm skeptical of the idea that food artisans are doing 5 - 10 x the labour of non-artisan chefs.
Why wouldn't you expect a 10-course meal to be 10x the labor of a 1 course meal? Just to take the most simple approach to this.
Also, at $20 per person, the kitchen staff and waitstaff are probably not being compensated appropriately for their labor and time, though it obviously also depends on the cost of ingredients and the difficulty of preparation.
(To be really clear about what I'm saying--so that it doesn't sound like I'm saying "all food should cost at least $20 per person" or something out of touch like that, I'm saying that a restaurant that charges less than $20 per person for food is almost definitely paying the kitchen staff less than the $30-35/hr they deserve for their labor--at a minimum. Kitchen workers work hard!)
But let's take something like mole (a Mexican dish) as an example. Traditional mole poblano takes hours to make and may include over 30 different ingredients. Not to mention the skill involved, and the time it takes to learn how to make it. Chefs might spend decades honing their craft.
And that's just one component of the meal. Yes, that labor also gets spread across several guests, but remember that there could be 10 or 20 people involved in preparing your dinner, from dishwashers to prep cooks to waiters.
Where did 10-course meal come from? Are we implying that because it's artisanal, it's going to be a feast? It being "art" doesn't mean there's going to be more of it, as you yourself explained, you're paying for a person who has honed their craft, it doesn't at all mean there's going to be more food.
I certainly doubt I've dined at any restaurant where there's 20 people preparing my food, even 10 seems like a stretch. But you're right, the handful of people who are preparing it probably aren't being paid what they should be. That being said, I'm certainly not paid enough to pay the wages of the whole restaurant. That $20 a head limit that I impose on myself is because that's what I can afford, on the occasion that I go to a restaurant.
absolutely. yes, I think a distinction needs to be made between what a meal can/should cost in a society where everyone is being paid fairly vs a society where most people aren't.
I’d never spend $200 on one meal
I spent $200 on a glass of Japanese Whiskey once. I did not realize the cost until the bill came, tho.
It really was. If I had unlimited monies, I could see myself drinking it more regularly.
I did spend 150 per person on one dinner, was a big celebration and months of saving up to it. But honestly while nice not the best dinner I ever had.
amazing how he has no idea the cost of cars or food and went way over and way lower on each
"When you consider the fact you can pick up a brand new Kia Forte sedan for less than the price of a simple camping lantern it's clear that cars have become far too cheap" says extremely in-touch and frugal man.
It blocked me from looking at the lamp because it thinks I'm a robot.
Web pages that check your credit score before they open. Attempting to check the page is automatically reported on your credit score.
Please keep me away from the lathe.
21,200
Lantern made up of four individual lanterns covered with water-resistant smooth taurillon leather. Temporary outdoor use. Direct, diffuse and combined lighting. Rechargeable battery with 8 hours' battery life.
Made in Italy
Lamps: 4.3" long x 11.8" high x 2.8" deep | Set: 6.7" long x 12.6" high x 6.7" deep
LED technology (per lantern): LED 4 W Color temperature: 3,000 K Voltage: 100-240 V
the sole point of that lantern is to show that you can afford to waste 20k on a camping lantern you use a grand total of two times in your life. this is how the bourgeois tells his petit boug neighbors who barely have a million or two that they're nothing.
They also have a 650 dollar desk tray for loose change for when you are an obscene billionaire who nonetheless holds a death grasp on every last morsel of wealth until the day your heart mercifully kills you
I have never spent $200 on a meal and my subcompact car payment was $280 a month years before the car shortage. You also need like $3,000 up front.
As a vegan, I now believe that all steak dinners cost $250. My God you people.
By the end of the year a drunken kebab will cost the same as a small house deposit here in the UK.
Where I’m at, our most expensive fine dining restaurant is like $120 a person if you wanted to get appetizers, an expensive entree, dessert, and good wine. I’ve only been once, not on my dime, and it was far from the best meal I’ve ever had, regardless of price.
Meanwhile, I used to work in the kitchen at another fine dining place where the head chef said his secret was stealing the most popular dish from every restaurant he’s ever worked at. I got like a 50% discount at that place on days that I worked, so I’d work a lunch and then take my partner to dinner and have the bougiest food you’ve ever eaten at Applebee’s prices.
:thonk: CEO solves economy with remarkable brain.
Americans keep accusing everyone else of being nazis while the highest grossing products in their country are made by nazis :soviet-hmm:
