you know – this is always represented in the news/etc as ‘a starbucks a day’ but i mean moreso a gadget or a shirt. i’m splurging on deodorant right now. is that immoral? are you meant to have a mostly austere budget until you’re a boomer with a house and a fence?

so uhh what’s the last little thing you bought to not go insane?

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    733·
    9 months ago

    ima be real chief it ain’t gonna fuckin matter if I go spend $30 or not on an electronic gadget once in a while, the chances of me landing in home ownership are still gonna be 0.0%. fuck it we ball, i might as well have toys to play with that makes the tism happy

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      351·
      9 months ago

      You know it’s kind of funny in a way that people keep telling us to cut out all unnecessary spending to make it further than just paycheck to paycheck instead of just raising wages so we can afford those little things.
      But I don’t think they take into account that our economy is almost entirely supported by our endless consumerism.
      If we take their advice and stop buying ourselves little treats and toys the whole economy collapses, it’s completely unsustainable without them nickel and diming us to death yet they refuse to give us even pennies.
      I honestly wonder what their backup plan is when they eventually do get all the money and there’s none left for us to give them anymore.

      • Devi@kbin.social
        11·
        9 months ago

        I saw a job today that I fit the criteria for and pays around double what I currently earn. Out of interest I though I’d look at what house I could afford on that salary in my area.

        The answer is none. I can afford no houses in my area even on double what I earn in a quite high up management position.

      • chknbwl@lemmy.world
        9·
        9 months ago

        I don’t think they have a backup plan, everything is going according to their active plan. You could almost consider this like micro-colonization: the wealthy step on the toes of the working folk, lie to the workers into thinking colonization is good, drain resources and human willpower, then throw them in a ditch after they realize their home was stolen from them. Ask the Native Americans, Aboriginals of Australia, or almost every single African country to ever have existed.

        TL;DR - We’ll probably be displaced to neat little patches of land where were are out-of-sight, out-of-mind.