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by burgerbrain 5538 days ago
33% of a food budget sounds like a lot.

33% of $9 hardly does...

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And yet, if 9$ is your food budget, they are the same.
The point is that when you realize that the food budget is equivalent to $9, the only way you can make the coffee expenditure seem unrealistic is to conveniently not mention that fact and say something like "You spend 33% of your food budget just for coffee?".

Accusing someone of having a caffeine addiction for spending a mere $3 a day on it is just silly.