Perhaps income level doesn’t actually have anything to do with it. If the health benefits are worth it and you don’t pay for the expensive meat, then you risk developing health problems down the road which will cost you even more money.
Put differently, if you view it as an investment, and if that investment has a positive ROI, it’s probably worth making regardless of whether or not you are wealthy. Caveats include things like opportunity cost and whether you have enough cash on hand to make the investment in the first place.
Haha yup. But even beyond that, even if you had all the money in the world there is still a cost to developing diseases — lowered quality of life, increased risk of dying early — and I suspect that even if you just look at that cost, it would outweigh the extra money spent on higher quality meat.
Perhaps income level doesn’t actually have anything to do with it. If the health benefits are worth it and you don’t pay for the expensive meat, then you risk developing health problems down the road which will cost you even more money.
Put differently, if you view it as an investment, and if that investment has a positive ROI, it’s probably worth making regardless of whether or not you are wealthy. Caveats include things like opportunity cost and whether you have enough cash on hand to make the investment in the first place.
You might be right. I forgot that the OP is in the US, where healthcare is absurdly expensive.
Haha yup. But even beyond that, even if you had all the money in the world there is still a cost to developing diseases — lowered quality of life, increased risk of dying early — and I suspect that even if you just look at that cost, it would outweigh the extra money spent on higher quality meat.