Someone Who Is Good At The Economy Please Help Me

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Someone Who Is Good At The Economy Please Help Me is a snowclone popular on Twitter in which a person lays out a budget in which they are spending an exorbitant amount on a frivolous item, then asks, "someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying."

Origin

On September 29th, 2013, @dril tweeted:^[1]

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Candles $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

His tweet gained over 53,000 retweets and 74,000 likes in three and a half years (shown below).
The top response is user @craigus12^[2] saying "spend less on candles," to which @dril^[3] responded "no." The tweets gained over 12,000 and 13,000 retweets, respectively.

Spread

Over the following several years, the tweet became a popular snowclone on Twitter where people would change the numbers and "candles." One of the earlier, more popular examples was posted by a Dril parody account, @critical_dril (shown below).^[4]

@Dril's tweet was included in a Daily Dot^[5] article later that year in a feature on Dad Jokes. It was included in a list of @Dril's 15 best tweets on The Things^[6] as well as a list of his 10 best tweets in Newsweek.^[7] Meanwhile, the snowclone continued to be used in various iterations on Twitter.