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To add a little perspective, before Covid some 40%ish number of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck.

Yeah, some people are very much struggling to survive. They don't have it to spare.

Half or more of the above figure have an iPhone / Samsung smartphone with an unlimited data plan. It’s complicated and not as simple as nothing to spare. Plenty that could spare, including software devs making 100k+ a year, don’t care.

I used to live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some people making nominally large salaries don't have a lot of discretionary funds available.

I believe a lot of our societal gridlock is currently rooted in the deficiencies of our built environment. I am trying to focus on how we make progress on that.

A lot of people are currently in a situation where they need a high paying job to cover "basic expenses" and it's killing them. We need to find a way out of that if we really want to solve the climate stuff.

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