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Credit cards aren't a fixed cost. Spend less.

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What a helpful take in a CoL crisis.

Everything is a crisis if you can't control your impulses.

I suppose it's easier to blame ones self than to critique capitalism

blaming capitalism is extremely useless

it is if that's all people do, but I think it is a necessary step to realize that we do live under a system that encourages an amoral allocation of resources. If people only ever shrug that off or treat it as intractable it will never change. Some would argue that it cannot be changed, but I think that just means they haven't read history.

Until it isn't because enough people realize it is inherently flawed and will never result in stability and they would rather die than relegate themselves, their children, and all their later generations, to indefinite servitude of an outdated economic system. Provided we don't kill our world first in our pursuit of endless profit growth.

I'd much rather deal with some less stability and have a lot more resources available to smooth out the bumps.

The US has made the correct choice for the last 250 years, I hope people like you aren't able to derail it.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1646771/ Turns out, scientifically, it hasn't

> I'd much rather deal with some less stability and have a lot more resources

This strategy works so long as you're in the group of people who do indeed have "more resources," but breaks down if you're marginalized in any way, or if you don't want to support the exploitative system.

That is what people always says about their current culture or economy or political system, even as they are on the very edge of systemic change. And quite frankly to me that just reads like an excuse to not do or try anything so people can kick the can down the road, benefiting themselves at the expense of many others both currently and in the future as things deteriorate further.

Easier or not, it's certainly more productive to focus on what you can control.

Also I'm open to critiques of capitalism, but the post I replied to didn't contain one.

I guess more people died of starvation under socialism than under capitalism.

Some people just can't resist the urge to feed their families.

To feed with burrito paid on four installments.

Some people also can't resist the urge to create large families they can't afford.

Is hardly the childrens fault. It is also hard to go back on if your circumstances change

That’s becoming a very small part of the population, as birth rates fall across the board.

Brother lately I’ve only been putting groceries on credit cards and you’re right, they’re not a fixed cost. They’re a variable cost that just keeps going up.

I wonder if in classic HN fashion somebody will suggest to stop eating...

Ozempic is expensive unless you make your own from overseas imports

Anyone remember Soylent?

I prefer Huel.

The addition of credit cards to that line does little to spoil the point they were making.

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