Kein Problem mein Kerl, ich hab dich.

This “just cook bro” mentality is peak broke-brain logic.

You think spending an hour every day chopping onions and scrubbing pans is some badge of honor? Congrats, you saved $7 and burned the only free hour you had after work. Hope the lentils were worth it.

Cooking isn’t free. It costs time, energy, and attention — the three things high-performers guard with their life. Grocery runs, prep, cooking, dishes, cleanup — you’re bleeding hours to save pennies. That’s not frugality, that’s time poverty.

You’re not a monk. You’re a tired guy reheating dry-ass chicken at 10pm convincing yourself it’s “self care.” Meanwhile someone else paid $15 for Uber Eats, finished a deck, hit the gym, and got 8 hours of sleep. But hey, you diced your garlic by hand. King shit.

And don’t even start with the “but health!” cope. 90% of y’all cooking at home aren’t making quinoa bowls and wild-caught salmon. You’re eating rice, eggs, toast, and the same $3 Trader Joe’s stir-fry every night. You’re not optimizing for health, you’re optimizing for feeling morally superior while wasting time.

Time is the only real flex. You get more of it by buying it back. If that costs $12 for takeout, that’s a steal. If you’re in any field where leverage matters — tech, finance, creative — and you’re still cooking every meal from scratch like it’s 1947, you’re not serious.

This isn’t about being rich. It’s about understanding what moves the needle. High-output people don’t micromanage their meals — they outsource. You want to be productive? Stop pretending cooking is a virtue. It’s not. It’s a time sink.