re: Cost of living an inflation is bad, so why do people keep doing useless things

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Why do people keep complaining about the costs of things and inflation, but they still feel the need to keep up with the Jones’?

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Perhaps these folks feel hopeless and are living for the day and a moment of happiness.

The reality is a large portion of this country is fricked with no real future prospects as their wages will never increase in a meaningful way. Thus they say frick it and YOLO on the here and now.