I read it more as a segue into the main point about conflicting narratives in the American public regarding food.

Despite our excuses that we have to eat unhealthy fast food because it's cheap, we still eat it it once it's expensive. We all talk about how there is an obesity crisis yet we constantly promote and glorify unhealthy food on social media.

>Or maybe no one is fully logically consistent in their views. In the end, people will continue to consume this food even knowing full-well it’s unhealthy and overpriced. And for that, McDonald’s should not be too concerned.

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eudamoniac 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> we constantly promote and glorify unhealthy food on social media.

We do? The only food I've seen on social media in years has been from someone jerking themselves off about how healthy this thing they ate/made was.

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happytoexplain 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"We" do not all have the same opinions. You are lambasting an imaginary segment of the population.

	▲	why_at 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah fair enough. I'm not sure I really agree with the piece either tbh. More likely these different narratives are coming from different groups of people. I'm not even convinced of the main premise that McDonald's is now much more expensive relative to other things. I think it just feels that way because we had a few years of high inflation.