A Google Employee working from home could save $200/day versus getting a fancy limousine to go to work.
Nobody buys prepared food every day, and the costs of food are negligible for a Google employee.
Nobody buys prepared food every day, and the costs of food are negligible for a Google employee.
Of course they do? When I've been crunching, like just putting insane hours in, I've gone weeks without cooking and just ordering in. It costs a fortune, even at Google salary - or in my case, 'SF' salary. Not to mention the cost of living is already absurd due to rent - your salary gets eaten up faster than you might imagine.
I get what you are trying to say, but empirically false
I know many people who don't cook at all and live solely on prepared food.
(Never cooking is very, very rare here in The Netherlands so I'm curious about any anecdata here).
These are broad strokes, but my experience in rural America and in SF bears this out, rich people eat out very often and tend to be fit and the very poor also eat out more than average but tend to be obese. Everyone else is in the middle.
In The Netherlands, the cuisine tends to be really simple, and salad-kits and meal-kits are extremely popular. The fanciest food that people 'cook' is often a soup or pasta, and I'd say it's extremely rare for anyone to make pasta or sauces from scratch.