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You're really going to answer "people can't afford to live because everything (including bare essentials) is too expensive" with "just don't waste so much moneyβ in an economy specifically designed to make sure that you spend as much as possible whether you choose to or not? π€¦
Nope, but I'm not going to assume that most people AREN'T or that it's the anywhere near the main impediment to people in general making ends meet.
Especially not when the bare essentials have skyrocketed in price while wages stayed the same and public assistance got even more difficult to be approved for than the Kafkaesque nightmare it's already been for decades.
Not when the parasite corporations profiteer off of everything including the bare essentials to the point that survival without crushing lifelong debt is increasingly becoming something that only the privileged few have within reach.
Would that be the official government inflation data? The same data that's skewed to the point of uselessness by deliberately omitting food and housing costs?
Yet another baseless generalization to justify your economic victim blaming π
Pointing out how tone deaf and counterproductive it is to basically make the "avocado toast and Starbucks" argument when people are literally starving after already cutting all unnecessary expenses isn't tilting at windmills, it's setting the record straight.
That being said, it seems that it's just as pointless in this case, as obstinate and obtuse as you're being, so I'm just gonna wish you the day/night you deserve and go to bed.
Just fuck off already.