• TheFriar@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Not to mention energy costs, transportation costs, basically all necessary costs have gone up. In the meantime, the cost of electronics and frivolous items have gone down. It almost seems like a goddamn ploy so they can continue to write snide articles about, “oh, you all complain about being poor? Why are you still buying TVs and iPhones?”

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      3 months ago

      Electronics often have subscriptions, ads, and data theft baked in. So the sticker price is less, but companies are still making more money off us.