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Originally Posted by Azure
What percentage of families are living paycheck to paycheck before interest rates went up?
What percentage of families can't find jobs that pay well?
What percentage of families are not seeing pay increases in line with inflation?
What percentage of families are struggling to buy groceries because of the rising cost of food + shrinkflation?
I mean, I get people aren't supposed to be entitled, but this isn't about whether we pay carbon tax or not.
Imagine how entitled one has to be to think that it is.
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I'm talking about the people who are very vocal and a lot of them are not any of those things. The whole point of the post I replied to was that the carbon tax was forcing people to change their lifestyle by making them poor. And people SHOULD change their lifestyle if it comes down to hard choices, but in reality all we do is bitch and moan, but do we sell our F150 for a cheap car? Do we maybe ride the bike to work? Yes some have made changes, but far too many do the very opposite. And lol at calling me entitled for calling out entitled actions.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Absolutely. I agree with this.
And as someone who is in an industry that is overheated & struggling with logistics because of it, I welcome the efforts being made to decrease consumption. All everyone is doing is repeatedly raising prices up and down the chain to try and curb demand.
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Hold up, you agree with the post saying there needs to be financial pain in order to decrease consumption, but you have a problem with my post? You could have responded with the same "what about the poor people" post to that one, but instead you agree to it.
"Not being able to afford stuff is the point." = good..... saying we need some perspective before complaining about a carbon tax = bad. Got it.