You have to be dumb to not see that some things will benefit yourself as well as others, or, that government & corpos make life worse for others as much as for you.

So I agree with OOP, if you see your income dwindle from just about enough to always slightly less than enough, you cannot afford to ignore politics.

And I mean just having an opinion & acting accordingly, not using already tight resources for ... activism? ... tbf I dunno what exactly they meant with "do politics".