And, that stupid picture. For $8, I get TWO slices, each a LARGE piece of (organic whole-wheat) bread, with additional veggies and a nut spread, from some upscale vegan place in downtown Boston no less. If you're getting a tiny slice of Wonderbread with half an avocado on it like the article's picture suggests, of course you're getting ripped off.
Of course, if you share a tiny apartment that's probably not such a pleasant way to catch up with your friends, but what does he care, he's already got a house.
But the article is entirely about "avocado toast", a meal that, while popular, is not eaten more than once per week even by any millenial I know. Saving $8/meal×1 meal/week×52 weeks/year = $416/year is so laughably far from helping save for the down payment of a home, especially in a market where avocado toast is popular, like Boston, where it would take 100 years.
The article is vapid. It could be summed up as "get off my lawn" but because the author of this content-free piece is somehow employed by the New Yorker, he found it necessary to wrap it in a dozen paragraphs of purple prose.
do you know how much a slice of bread costs?