Ok. Most of you aren’t broke. My mom, with two child daughters, having left an abusive relationship was living in a studio apartment having to choose between food for her daughters or paying rent.
Most people I know who consider themselves broke complain about ticketmaster fees, and inflation on fast food.
If you even CONSIDER eating fast food, or going to concerts, at all, you’re NOT broke.
Broke people think differently. They repurpose every little thing they can in life to get more milage to avoid spending money. Any money. On anything that isn’t strictly needed for survival. Forget streaming. Forget entertainment. That stuff is for rich people.
Until you reach that level, you aren’t broke. You’re just bad at managing money.
an0nym0us@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Don’t you love being gaslighted about the economy?
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve been saying this for months now. If every metric of the economy says things are doing great but people are reporting unprecedented levels of economic anxiety, the the metrics we use to measure the economy are flawed!
Seriously. An economy isn’t dictated by natural law. We’re not finding the diffusal rates of two different viscous liquids or trying to piece together why particle X behaves the way it does in light, we’re talking about an entirely man-made artificial construct. If the people who make up “the economy” are saying the economy’s bad, we already have the conclusion and should be working backwards from that.
colderr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The economy is going great for massive companies.
For us humans, it’s quite shit.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s ok to keep eating chips and drinking coke to fuel this capitalist bullshit nightmare.
Change your buying habits and maybe things will change.
StuffYouFear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A small personal bag of Cheetos cost more than a can of Campbell’s soup. I would think the metal alone would cost more than the whole bag and chips inside. We are being fleeced.