• Prove_your_argument@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    People think americans have no money for anything. This might be true for tens of millions of americans! But there are hundreds of millions of them… and a lot of them have 1k to throw around like it’s nothing.

    It’s just not much money for most of us. Just check our grocery bills, electricity bills, mortgages… a one time 1k is just not much. Especially true for urban areas with millions of inhabitants where rents start around 2k a month and go much, much higher.

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        20 hours ago

        imagine if your entire fun money budget for years was like… 1k. How many decades would it take you to save up for a used toyota corolla with 100k miles that is about ten years old?

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      23 hours ago

      It used to not be that much money for me; it feels like they realized that and they went “oh, you have money huh? Well then you can afford to pay THESE prices!!”