[OfSanguineFire]

> Plus, most of peoples' biggest current expenses are education, housing and healthcare, not that a toothbrush costs $1.99 and not $0.99.

If you think that, you are looking at things from an elite perspective. You might want to look at any national subreddit in the last couple of years and read some threads about inflation and how people are feeling the squeeze and having to deny themselves all kinds of ordinary things. As I said, this is not just toothbrushes, that was a mere example, it is almost every non-food product a person would have to buy.

[gloryjulio]

I'm not exact sure about that. I barely buy non essential things for years. My cloths r years old. My phone is years old. My old PCs r still great. The biggest expense is actually housing, healthcare. The food is probably the universal cost, but they are not from China. Just saying I'm not poor, I work in tech. I just don't find things that are worth buying. I travel, workout, play games. Then again, those things dont depend on China.

Can u give the examples of the essential items that has to come from China?

[OfSanguineFire]

> u

> r

Please don’t do this on HN.

[gloryjulio]

Typing on phone is not that great. Can you answer the questions about what r the essential items that you have to get from China?

[OfSanguineFire]

If you really cannot type on your phone without recourse to SMS-speak, which the HN community does not take kindly to, then don’t write on your phone. You can always wait until you get back to a real keyboard and write your comment then. Since you cannot respect the standards of this community, I don’t wish to further engage with you.

[gloryjulio]

What community standards are you referring to? Can you post the link? So you are using that as an excuse to avoid the actual problem? Now I have typed the words are you going to reply the actual problems? You are just using it as an excuse not discussing your own point isn't it. Seems we know who are the CCP's shills ;D