chaonaut@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•‘Stop the price-gouging’: Biden hits corporations over high consumer costs
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11 months agoThe prices for fixed costs have gone up, too. People need a place to live, the health to keep living, and ways of ensuring access to both, and the costs of all of those have gone up as well. A not insignificant chuck of people don’t have discretionary spending to cut (not to mention how stressful living paycheck-to-paycheck on the bare essentials can be). Yes, it is certainly worth reevaluating budgets and determining where expenses can be lowered, but those margins have been getting thinner for a long while.
Perhaps they should have left Western style Manifest Destiny in the past.