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[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago

This is what Conservatives around the world want and glory hallelujah we are almost there! The only difference is all those rations will not come from the government but from corporations paid for by the government.

  • 4 boxes Kraft Mac and Cheese
  • 6 cans Heinz Beans
  • Etc.
[-] Alenalda@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

This ladys eating better than I do

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

How?

With an average net income ranging from 1100 USD to 2400 USD, any average worker should eat better than this

This lady monthly rations amount to approximately 160 USD, while the average minimum wage workers spends from 260 to 350 USD worth on groceries

Which I really doubt is a problem, given that the median of the monthly income in usa is about 5k usd

[-] spaduf@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago

Was this meant to be supplemented?

[-] strawberrysocial@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's a very good question

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

12 packs of cigs seems like a huge luxury

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 10 points 2 days ago

For a month? It's just dried shredded leaves wrapped in paper, cigarettes are super cheap to produce, tax makes them expensive.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

You didn't live in the eighties I bet. It was cheap back then and everyone smoked.

[-] kava@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

average smoker smokes about 20 cigarettes a day. so it's a little less than half of a monthly use of cigarettes.

from what i understand the ration was meant to supplement what you consume, not provide everything

[-] strawberrysocial@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Is 20 cigs a day honestly the average nowadays?? Mind blowing and sad. My mum who was an addicted smoker since she was 10 years of age and went through maybe 5 to 10 cigs a day.

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[-] strawberrysocial@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Looks equivalent what you'd get at a Canadian food bank nowadays that's meant for 3 days.

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Shieet i could down all of that in 3 days easy

[-] sus@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

damn that's like 8000 calories per day

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[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

You could smoke 4 packs a day for 3 days?

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Yes. I'd also eat those bags of sugar and flour that I totally overlooked

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 3 days ago

ah 12 packs of cigarettes and a half a litre of vodka. a complete balanced breakfast.

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[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Now you know why people don't smile in Poland.

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Hey, I'm Polish and I do sometimes smile. I am living in Denmark, dough.

[-] Jikiya@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

That's not enough butter. I would have been put down young for rioting about criminally low amounts of butter.

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[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 141 points 4 days ago

Lmao 2.5kg of meat? Forget it. If you got any, it was a day to celebrate. You couldn't get shit for stamps and you had to stand in long queues to get the scraps that you could get. You waited for hours for a delivery that immediately disappeared or didn't come at all. You literally bought what you could. People used to barter the stamps and a grey market to get what you needed popped up. The only way to get what you wanted was to pay with dollars.

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[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Reminds me of the leftist venezuelan regime monthly rations in the form of cajas clap.

Absolutely disgusting food.

Thank goodness I was able to escape the dictatorship with my family

[-] strawberrysocial@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Thank you for posting this. I don't understand what a lot of those foods are. It looks like a heck of a lot of it is pasta/noodles based though. And maybe milk powder? Where is the protein other than the canned tuna(?) up at the top.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That was it. No more than that. Worst thing is that almost all this products are from Mexico. Before the collectivists and leftists took power in Venezuela, we used to make all these products

Left to right

4 blue pasta packages, 200 grams each

4 green rice packages, 1 kg

4 yellow spaghetti packs. 200 grams each

6 shredded tuna cans. 130 grams each

1 oil bottle. 1 liter

2 red bottles, tomato sauce/ketchup. 220 grams each

2 orange packs, corn flour, 1kg each

1 pack of refined sugar, 1kg

1 white pack, dry whole milk, 500 grams

2 green packs, black beans, 1kg each

3 yellow packs, egg spaghetti, 290 grams each

3 red packs, elbow shaped spaghetti , 200 grams each

1 blue pack, lentils, 1 kg

Take into account that this is supposed to last a family of 4 a month. If it ever arrives.

Because it's assigned per family

Also, as most of these products are from Mexico, the transportation is not the best and most of the time they arrive corroded, open by rats, or with less or very different products than advertised

So yeah I'm glad I escaped the collectivistic hellhole with my family mostly intact

[-] strawberrysocial@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Thank you for answering, this is very eye opening. In Canada we get a similar amount of food at our volunteer based food banks that is supposed to last a month but lasts a few days, but it's different in the type of product. And it would never be given to us in a state that was degraded or torn into by pests.

[-] x0chi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

That catsup can go 2 ways. Ketchup or Cat Soup

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Oh, she looks so happy!

[-] wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 3 days ago

0.5 liter of vodka? What were they supposed to do the other 29 days of the month?

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[-] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Unpopular opinion: we need to ration electricity consumption as well as fuel today, even in capitalists countries. Because that stuff actually has incredible impact on the planet, and will (must) drive consumption down, so that companies / individuals start integrating "efficiency" into their thinking

I don't see any other solution to the "exponentially growing power consumption" problem.

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 20 points 2 days ago

I don’t see any other solution to the “exponentially growing power consumption” problem.

In the U.S., at least, power generation has been roughly flat for the last 20 years, not growing exponentially:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_of_the_United_States#/media/File:Timeline_of_U.S._electricity_generation_by_major_energy_source.png

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[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Pigouvian taxes are a traditional solution to negative externalities, and they are often better received by the public than rationing.

  • It's expensive to be poor - the lights turning off a few days before the end of the month will incur even more costs than a higher electricity bill.

  • Taxes raise money for other programs, instead of costing money to enforce rationing.

  • Higher taxes in general will also help reduce inflation.

  • Tax revenue can be spent on stimulus checks to offset the cost for people who use less energy than average.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Rather than stimulus checks we need to be using the money to subsidize alternatives. And we can just switch subsidies. Some examples of that include that by reducing cattle subsides we can subsidize lower emissions meat alternatives or even offer free classes on how to cook meals that happen to be lower emissions, and we can stop funding airports and put that money into rail systems, similarly by removing mandatory minimum parking and reducing road funding that money can be put into transit solutions that enable less car centric lifestyles.

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