Overconsumption is off the fucking charts too. We purged yearly, and it’s amazing the crap we accumulate and never use. Now we just try to collect money in our accounts to survive.
Amazon is killing some families on impulse control issues.
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Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
I get the sentiment, but I assume that what the article is saying is that people regularly buy things that are way outside of sustainability.
Yes, many are in poverty, but that doesn’t mean you should eat out every single day. Or if you are somehow out of poverty, you shouldn’t be looking to buy a house at the top of your budget just because you really want one.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Amazon’s too expensive for me to get any serious impulse control issues on, I get my impulse purchases off AliExpress
Impact wrench arrived this week, now I’m waiting for my drill and angle grinder. All fake Makita tools lol
kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
All fake Makita tools lol
Likely made in the factory or right next door, lol
forrgott@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
No. The entire premise is a stinking pile of dung, and always has been.
People do not choose to live in poverty. Like, seriously, this a classist myth that has never fucking been true. If people did, they could just choose to stop being poo!! But anybody with a functioning brain knows that billionaires choose for the workers to be destitute. So this entire “if you’re poor you shouldn’t [x]” needs to just fucking die already.
Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
I don’t think the target audience here is people struggling with groceries.
There are a surprising number of households where both people pull in six figures in low or moderate cost of living areas, and they live paycheck to paycheck because they way overspend. It’s not groceries or the heating bill, it’s the extravagant vacations, the horseback riding lessons, the huge wardrobes for growing kids that need everything replaced in six months. These are all nice things, but if you can’t afford them, it’s OK to do without.
pseudo@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
Ans sometime it is also the grocerie. Not the avocado toast but the rebought avocado because the other ones grew old at the back of the fridge. The leftover going straight to the garbave even thought there is always a serving or two cooked extra. The little treats bought to ourselves every time we go out.
Still not people in poverty but people that can’t both never been bothered spending and build a emergency funds.
procapra@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Then its targeting a comparatively small amount of people then. Households that make over 180k (which is below your figure of 2 6figure incomes) would be the top 20% of households. And that factors in the high cost of living areas as well, so what you describe is an even smaller amount of people.
Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Yup, small percent of people. But those 4% (or whatever it is) are the only possible audience capable of breaking free of living from paycheck to paycheck by following “tips”. And 4% of 300 million people is a reasonably large number of people.