The $28 lunch debate misses the actual problem
Everyone's arguing about whether lunches cost too much. Meanwhile there's a whole reddit post that actually explains what's broken.
The real story isn't inflation theater. It's that wage stagnation made it possible for a $28 lunch to feel normal to some people and impossible to others. Same meal. Two completely different realities. That's the gap nobody wants to discuss.
Lunch price debates distract from the actual wage collapse that makes the cost devastating for working people.
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