Progress is well and alive for people in the top 10%. Lots of people I know are thriving, but they come from money and are making six figure salaries at 25.
But for the bottom 90%, we’re all fucked. As much progressive as I’ve made in my 15 working years, I’m not really any better than I was at 22 when i got my first job.
they are going back down now that supply chain is stabilized.
my car has dropped $5000 in value between this year and last year.
they are consumer goods like any other.
you can cook a meal at home and travel locally. but few are interested in this because it is not a ‘display of wealth’, the way your week in Bali is or your tiktok dining blog.
getting a fuel efficent compact car, new or used, is what is best.
way way too many have huge gas guzzlers, used or old. your 1990 4Runner that gets 10mpg and has horrible emissions isn’t saving the environment.
No.
It’s as simple as stop buying shit you don’t need, and rather than buy new stuff, replace/fix/renew old stuff.
Like… stop buying a new car on lease every 2/3 years. buy a car and keep it for 10+ years.
Stop vacationing to foreign countries, go on a road trip. etc
it comes at a social cost though.
i have lost a lot of friends because I live below my ‘means’. whereas most folks I meet are ‘struggling’ because they are living beyond theirs.
Especially travel and restaurants. consumption is now re-branded as ‘experience’.
and then complain that you are poor and the ‘man/system’ is the one whose fault it is.
instead of just washing your own dishes.