ughh
Now do health care.
But also eliminate profits entirely from the industry.
I’m not against a national health system, but reality is we’re still just fighting for m4all. Though probably should be advocated for more, and set as a next step.
And eliminate profits from the industry.
People, people, there’s an easy fix for this.
When shit gets too expensive, you…DON’T buy it.
Buy the essentials to make your weekly meals. But 5 years ago I used to buy SOOOOO much extra shit.
Soda, chips, cookies, tea, popcorn, on and on and on.
Then I just stopped. The pandemic started mass inflation. So I said fuck this.
Now, 2 days ago I see that PepsiCo is lowering their prices, because they’re losing money.
Now for the key to all this…THAT SHIT WORKS ON LITERALLY EVERY PRODUCT!!!
Dorittos $7? No buy dorritos.
Milk $8 dollars a gallon? No buy milk.
Burger King $18 for one meal? Suck my asshole all the way off with that shit.
Eventually these companies will either go out of business, and send a message to everyone else, OR they lower their prices, and stop cutting quality.
two thumbs up! I started a #nobuy lifestyle about a year ago. I only buy essentials. Gas, (because I live in a car-centric hellscape) food basics, and soda water because I quit alcohol and it helps. That’s it. I repair my clothes and thrift shop if I just have to have something “new”. My food bill is still 30-40% higher even after cutting out everything extra but I refuse to pay $7 for a bag of chips. I was in a Dollar General the other day for cat food, and a 12 pack of Sprite was $9. $9! at the dollar store. Ridiculous!
hugs for quitting alcohol
I know it’s hard, but you’re still with us, and hopefully without liver issues, or cancer. One day at a time.
you’re not wrong on every point. but the unfortunate addendum is that the essentials are also too expensive.
Well, also yes, but also I can’t just say “don’t buy food”. That’s unrealistic.
But if grocery stores ONLY relied on me, their profits would have fell off a cliff 5 years ago. Thus making it impossible for them to think of raising prices on ANYTHING.
But yes, the ideal solution is to just grow our own food and be self sufficient, but that’s only realistic for like 5% of people.
Growing your own food, even in a small garden, really shows how bad climate change is. There’s more bugs sooner, the plants get way too hot and/or get a late freeze, or your water restrictions mean they wither before you can harvest.
Doing my own backyard garden had been a real challenge, and there’s no way to live off of it. It’s simply supplemental. I would starve to death in the winter. But I’m still trying!
last year, half our tomatoes never turned red because it was both too hot and never got hot enough for the tomatoes. we had a lot of fried green tomatoes.
Just eat the bugs!
Seriously though, look into canning and indoor growing and it’ll help over the winter. If you have enough time and resources to put into it, you might actually be able to drastically reduce how much you buy. More easily said than done though.
I would starve to death in the winter. But I’m still trying!
…trying to starve to death? Interesting priorities I guess.
Well if someone described your garden as “simply supplemental,” wouldn’t you?
Do you seriously believe they are trying to starve to death and not trying to grow their own food in their garden?
It was a wordplay joke based on the quote that they attached.
Are… you serious?
No. I’m making a joke…damn, absurdity really is dead in 2026.
Absurdity is reality now, so satirical stuff just doesn’t hit the same anymore.
That’s absurd!
In a perfect world, sure. But with corruption, price gouging, too big to fail, and govt buyouts of lots of the biggest players in the game, its all rigged against us. I wish I could just stop buying cheese for a bit and the price would drop, but that would require everyone to stop. But then the govt would just subsidize the dairy farmers and id have been without cheese for nothing.
Fuck, i want cheese now!Milk isn’t a brand thing.
That’s Milk®️
Oh, the brand thing Milk®️.
Respect.
No there isn’t: EVERYTHING is more expensive, wages have not kept pace with productivity in many decades, and a lot of people are struggling. If you’re still managing to get buy with judicious spending, that’s great but you should understand that a lot of people are in situations bad enough that they cannot do that. There is no easy fix for individuals unfortunately.
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Same here.
All of my purchases are practical and come from a need, not a want.
I’ve gone to an extreme form of this. I buy the same food every week, and eat the same meals every week. This practice makes my weekly grocery shopping a breeze. I know exactly what I’m getting, exactly where it is, there’s no browsing or even looking at other products. I’m in and out in <30 minutes, including check out, and I know my bill will be ~$75, which is all of my food for a week. So, just over $10/day. I don’t eat out at all, and haven’t since the pandemic showed me I could easily make all my meals at home while eating better and saving money. I was just doing it out of habit and convenience, AKA laziness.
Yeah, I thought I’d get bored with the food when I started this, but I haven’t. In fact, I’ve simplified the menu even further over time. I started with the mantra, “Food is not entertainment, food is not reward”. Because, food should be neither of those. If you wonder whether your pet gets tired of eating the same thing every day, they don’t. Because, they don’t think about food as entertainment, how does boredom even fit in the equation?
It should be banned from everything.
