You've got to do more than just forego that expensive avocado toast!

Is…. Is that a real tweet?

Are you struggling with rising costs? Finding it difficult to live in a society which the rich warp to serve only their needs?

Have you tried just having a much shittier life?

Across the globe, the most successful have already accepted you having a much shittier life, and it's working great for them!

Try a shittier life today! A shittier life: if you deserved more, you would've been born rich.

The horrible implications about your pets aside, you'd think economists understand what selling your car means in terms of employability.

Wow this is so helpful. I thought skipping iPhones and avocado toast would cover it, but putting down Fido definitely makes sense.

Here's a couple more ideas:

• Never leave your house.
• Actually, get rid of the house, tents offer shelter at a fraction of the cost
• Let grandma pull herself up by her bootstraps, physical therapy isn't cheap.
• If you have children, help them with interview roleplay, putting little ones to work can be a great way to increase your household income
• cut out alcohol, tobacco and caffine, those costs can add up quick!

In their defense, we really shouldn't be doing chemo on dogs for the most part anyway. A big part of getting through chemo as a human is rationalizing the pain, nausea, and other discomforts. Humans can rationalize that those discomforts are saving their life, or at least helping them live long enough to go to their kid's wedding or see the first grandbaby be born or whatever. A dog can't rationalize or look forward to the future, the dog just knows it feels like hell today. It seems rather cruel when you consider it that way.

That's just a medical ethics debate though, the financial aspect of this is cockamamie.

Why do all economists seem so out of touch?

Actual article for those interested https://archive.is/20220320001551/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-13/inflation-stings-most-for-those-earning-under-300-000?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-economics&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=economics

Bloomberg is not worth the electrons to used to represent the characters that they print but this is pure rage bait and almost anything taken out of contacts can be horrific.

Here's the quote with context

If you’re one of the many Americans who became a new pet owner during the pandemic, you might want to rethink those costly pet medical needs. It may sound harsh, but researchers actually don’t recommend pet chemotherapy — which can cost up to $10,000 — for ethical reasons.

Emphasis mine.

The screenshot is pure rage bait.

Would you like to know more? https://faunalytics.org/canine-chemotherapy-the-ethics-behind-hard-decisions/

Real talk in case someone needs to see this:

I had a good friend who's dog got cancer and he spoke very passionately about regretting the chemo. He said that chemo for people is to kill the cancer chemo for animals is to extend their life, but this wasn't something he knew going into the process.

It was not a good experience for either my friend or his doggo.

Bloomberg economics can go fuck themselves.

Big companies just raise prices because they can, and they will do so to sway an election.

Meanwhile, in Canada...

Chemotherapy for a dog? I think where I live it's seen as more merciful to put the dog down rather than have them suffer through chemo.

How about just selling organs... of former executives and politicians... harvested in a dirty basement... and sold out of the back of a van...

Look, I'm just trying to share my life experiences to try and help, alright?

Another quick tip - you can both make and save a bit of money by selling your kids to be eaten!

Just leave a trail of sweets for them to the local witches' cottage and they'll take them off your hands.

Appalling, yes. But give it a couple generations.

Owning pets, land or house? Eating anything but bugs? Absurd! Who do you think you are, royalty?

Totally normal stuff

> Bloomberg's daily "Let them eat cake" post

I only have one car... and I need to get to work for it. need it to get to work.

So, since Bloomberg is so helpful, how about I steal their car and sell it to beat inflation? Think they're BMW's or Audis?

(edit- apparently not my night.)

Or...the grocery store can stop price gouging their customers. The FTC already said they used the pandemic to inflate prices too much.

So far past late-stage & it still won't die without taking everyone & everything with it first. The biggest monster we created (so far).

That tracks for Bloomberg

Uh, the car part is pretty legit though. It's by far biggest luxury expense month to month at least for me. With leasing, I'm paying almost double of what I spend in smoking which is already really bad.

So yes, getting rid of expensive luxuries is obvious first step when you're low on money.