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[–] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Average Joe is in debt and can barely afford rent and groceries and insurance and medical bills, and car payments and you get the idea.

There's not much left to sacrifice.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    Well, for one thing, a car is a luxury in most of the world. Ask how people feel about riding on busses. Sometimes the answer is that they can't for some reason, but usually it's just that they prefer a private vehicle and no timetables.

    For another, a good potion of the population isn't actually struggling, and has Amazon or Temu stopping by to deliver dumb stuff from China all the time. Like, that entire sector, along with meal delivery, is all about spending surplus income. I'm not talking about the bottom quarter here.

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