Comment on A simple solution, really

• blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you have supportive friends, a lovely partner or partners, can go on walks, and look at the moon, but think life isn’t worth living because you can’t drink a cup of coffee… Imma say that’s a you problem.

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  • eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s not about the coffee specifically, it’s about all the pleasantries. Sure walks are nice and stargazing is lovely. And yeah, those things are great with friends and partners! But you know what else is a nice little treat? Coffee. Snacks. Watching that movie together. Some lovely flowers. Slick shoes.

    Some of the pleasantries that make life worth living are free, but many of them cost money. You obviously can’t have everything, but having to give up on literally every pleasantry that costs money (even the cheapest of ones) just to afford enough to live what used to be a normal middle class life is definitely not something that should be treated as normal. There’s a clear trend of sinking purchasing power for the masses and, with it, sinking morale.

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    • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ok. So what’s your point? Like, what do you expect any individual person to do with that information? The person who notices that “life’s little luxuries” are impacting their financial security and cuts down on them will be in a better financial position than someone who lives in denial and digs themselves into a financial hole.

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  • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you think walking and staring at the moon makes life worth living, it’s exactly as sad as liking coffee. Maybe even more so, you can’t even taste the moon.

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    • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      youtu.be/-EjyKej89mo

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  • Bunnylux@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s humorous hyperbole. Sorry you didn’t get the joke. Maybe try being funnier?

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