I struggled too. Since the last wave of cost of living increases these motherfuckers are all over my reduced-to-clear stickered items, and the absolute basic no-frills supermarket-brand essential stuff is through the fucking roof.
Flour and water, meemaw. Flour and water.
And don’t forget potatoes!
Yeah it’s a bit inaccurate of a meme tbh Food started to go up so much during + after covid that we gave up trying to keep track/stick to a budget
and the consequences of the Iran war still haven’t hit fully
Full blown shanty country
Part of the issue is because a lot of people aren’t literally in shanties it’s hard for people to recognise that poverty is becoming quite remarkably bad. The poor have electricity and internet now and I think its screwing with our brains. The other major factor here is that a lot of homeless people live in their cars rather than shanties which makes the issue less visible as cars look more expensive than shacks and tents and parked cars are ignorable. The average quality of living for people at the bottom is better than the gilded age but the income and quality of living divide is terrifyingly vast and it’s not improving.
Quality of living divide pisses me off because at a certain point (much nearer than we think), you don’t need to buy any more stuff.
The daily utilisation ratio of your mansion’s floorspace gets smaller and smaller and 80% of what you own will be stuff you don’t interact with regularly
And yet they keep on buying more stuff. Because they still feel they have to widen the gap.
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