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Dont spend money on anything that strictly necessary... You would be amazed how much you can save
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 money“ in an economy specifically designed to make sure that you spend as much as possible whether you choose to or not? 🤦
Are you going to posit that everyone is doing their best on budgetting?
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.
Denying parasite profit requires forgiving discretionary spending.
Current data indicates this aint happening.
Also fedi is mostly middle aged PMCs who make decent money.
But sure bro fight this wind mill
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 🙄
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.
well then consoom harder boy
Just fuck off already.
Why u mad tho
im having trouble getting blood from this stone, can you give it a try for me
I am not privy to your finances but vast majority of people have a some frivolous spending. This is the time to cut it
You're answering a specific statement with a generalization.
It's like responding to "I think I'm bleeding" with "nonsense: the vast majority of people aren't bleeding right now."
You get that, right?
If the person doesn't have any discriminatory spending to cut then the original statement wouldn't apply to them?
Most people have some spending to cut...
No no no, you misunderstand-
Avocado toast.
I found $170 CAD in monthly subscriptions to cut, I didn't realize it had gotten that bad until I sat down and went over it. Amazed is a good word for it.
Probably could find another $70 monthly if I started cutting some things I prefer to use but have alternatives for (like cutting QoBuz because I have YT Music, PlexAmp).
But yes, inflation has taken a bite and I've started to cut back on unnecessary things.