Paraphrasing JVL...
Last week Republican influencers spent a few days fighting over the price of burritos. What happened was this:
A TPUSA guy tweeted about how a burrito now costs $20 and this sucks. (TPUSA = college student)
And then Republicans lost their minds. The reactions broke down into three reasonably distinct groups.
America First types agreed that burritos cost too much and blamed either Joe Biden and/or neocons.
Pro-Trump True ConservativesTM mocked the entitled snowflakes by explaining that when they were kids they walked to school four miles in the snow, uphill both ways.
(Summary of tweets from Thiessen and Crenshaw - eat ramen, not a burrito you dumb ass, also a burrito would be cheaper if you weren't too lazy to walk to the burrito joint instead of door dashing).
I am here to tell you that the Great Burrito Discourse isn’t actually about burritos.
It’s about housing.
The short version is this:
Thirty years ago young adults didn’t mind eating ramen every night because they were saving up to buy a house and they knew that once they had skin in the real estate game they were on an escalator to wealth.
Buying a first home today is increasingly out of reach for young adults. Real estate has become insanely expensive not just in absolute terms but relative to the historical standards of the last three generations of Americans.
As the American economy froze young people out of the traditional route to wealth accumulation it offered, in return, an elevated consumer experience. Sure, you can’t afford to buy a house. But we can offer you cheap iPhones, 65-inch flatscreen TVs, and tasty burritos.
Young people resent $20 burritos because it means even this crappy deal is slipping out of reach and they are praying that The System doesn’t alter it further.
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Murph agrees on this one. I still think people who door dash food are a bunch of losers. Sure in college I ordered pizza world, but even then it was 7.95 for a 16 inch with 2 cokes from Pizza world, and we split that 4 ways. I do feel a bit guilty in retrospect that I considered the extra 5 cents after we all kicked in $2 to be a "tip". College students. Also, when La Bamba opened those burritos were $2.25. A shit bean burrito from Taco Bell is now $2.99.
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