What if the asshole billionaire was an avocado investor: On avocado toasts

You guys remember this story from a couple of years ago, when this super famous billionaire told young people they'd get rich if they stopped eating avocado toast and saving for the future. There was a lot of pushback against it because it's a well-known fact that pretty much all if not all the millionaires and billionaires are made without nickel-and-diming everyday expenses. It is more structural issues that keep people in poverty than them eating a piece of toast that's maybe a dollar or two more expensive than regular toast.

SO anyway since that brouhaha, there was a massive pushback against the supposed 'lavishness' of the avocado toast, and it became more apparent the popular consciousness. Restaurants and bars began serving it on the regular, and at this point, it's become as mainstay as regular toast.

It's quite a phenomenon that happened within our lifetimes, in front of our very eyes, within the last half-decade. Av-toast is so common now Dunkin Donuts is serving them as a part of their breakfast thing. That's as street as it's going to get.

Here's the conspiracy theory: what if the dude who moaned about millennials and their avocado toasts was actually an avocado investor who was counting on the pushback against his BS tweet to trigger massive increased interest in avocado in the long-term. Because it is my understanding that the fruit is not too great on the environment. What if liberals are so into it because they think it pisses off rich people, but in reality they were knowingly triggered by rich people to buy something that's super bad for the environment?

I wouldn't put it beyond the realm of possibility. Something to think about.

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