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SassyGrapefruit

The problem with "don't buy things you can't afford" is that society really says "you don't deserve things you can't afford". Why is it that some brat that never worked a day in their lives can enjoy Avocado toast every day? Is it just because they won the socio economic lottery? Then on the other side a mother of two abandoned by her partner, working two jobs has to make their own toast and plan trips to the park. Sucks to suck I guess. There has to be a better way than this. This form of raw Capitalism is not fair. Generational wealth gets to criticize from a perspective of having wealth and cast judgement on those who make not have it for reasons outside their control.

Now take a look at incomes and wealth globally. Fair is you getting a lot poorer.

OK so when what I have to pay for housing is several times more than my parents' generation did even when adjusted for inflation, where is that money going? Hint: not the global poor.

That money is going to your parents generation, and you eventually through inheritance. The global poor still need their check, unless you don't acutally care about fairness.

> That money is going to your parents generation, and you eventually through inheritance.

The owners of UK property may be members of my parents' generation, but they have very little in common with my parents; that money is not coming to me. (And while you could blame them for not jumping through the right hoops to have been eligible for Thatcher's right to buy, I don't think it's fair to say that working-class people should have known to bet a multiple of their net worth on decades of incredibly stupid housing policy).

> The global poor still need their check, unless you don't acutally care about fairness.

Sure, and I'm all for measures to help with that - I've voted for increased aid and will continue to do so. Using the global poor as a reason I can't criticize those with massive unearned wealth is pure whataboutism.

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