[watwut]

> It's basically a meme that boomers were telling young people that they're poor because they eat avocado toast - which implies that it got popular (in a niche) before it got cheap.

I do not think this follows. Some boomer oped writers blaming avocado toasts for young poverty does not imply there is causality between the two. Some boomers love to blame whatever is new for them and they do not bother to check prices or actual levels of consumption.

[virgilp]

Oh, I'm not claiming that to be "evidence" - merely saying that there are hints that alternative explanations are worth exploring/investigating. "There's no smoke without fire" thing - sometimes there absolutely is smoke without any fire (especially when creating smoke was the intent), but it's still worth to consider the hypothesis that observed smoke might have been caused by a fire.

[watwut]

Sometimes, and I think here too, the claim is more of "the fire and the cow-eating-the-grass are unrelated".

As in, whatever avocados young people were eating and buying, the expense is unlikely to be comparable with the cost of housing, education, healthcare (if they have health issues already) etc.