Naukri impact on the dinner cost!!!

So what all does naukri change in an individual as well as an individual's life
Thats so unlike me of not beating round the bust and straight away going to the bust i.e. talking about the title!!!

But sometimes there are no round about ways...Truth has to be accepted:

• Well since you start earning money you start spending it...Nothing unusual and different per say but it makes a huge difference. The cost of a dinner, when i was in IIT in first year used to be Rs 30/- it increased to 50-65 in second and third and went up to 90-100 by the time i passed out of the place. Was inflation the reason for this change. I don't think so. I still remember opting for cheaper options in a dinner and not opting for a post dinner basundi(Marathi version of rabri which is slightly more dilute) at times because saving was of paramount importance to me. But as times passed i realized that i don't end up saving much and end up screwing my dinner as well, because the payments are always divided equally and i anyways used to eat less and still eat less.
  
• After formally starting naukri, all parameters for a normal dinner are already too far above my normal range. Now a simple desert or a starter or a mocktail can cost you as much as your dinner(Rs 150/-). Since i cant justify such a spending, i have more or less stopped thinking about this. But the point is that now a dinner of mine can cost anything from 150 to 300 bucks. So basically in a short span of 5 years i am spending 10 times on the same dinner.
• But is the product 10 times superior or the satisfaction levels are more is a debate that i can't really find answers to.
  
  
• Another question that creeps into my mind is that am i justified in this spending?? The answer is a roundabout one. Now the circle of friends that i have come from a class that used to be a class or two above mine. Hence its perfectly normal and logical for them to spend this kind of a money of food. But since there is this sudden jump in my class, in order to be classy i have to bear this cost which appears unusually high to me. So this expense is not only a dinner expense.
• Its a cost of being part of a circle and class which i was not a part of earlier.
• But again there is a data type mismatch in terms of my family still being a part of the same old class and not rising to the level that i am at. And at current levels of income i cant really afford to pull all of them together to this place where i seem to have reached.

So this turns out to be an ethical dilemma as well. So even if it is ethically wrong i dont have a way out but to continue commiting this crime and hope for a raise so that all of us reach the same level.