[salawat]

You have to understand that after a certain point, the internal narrative has to shift for some people in a capitalist economy to one in which people who can't afford something because the price is too high means they simply don't want it enough. This allows the price setter to ignore their own part in the manufacturing of the suffering of another.

That there is such a thing as a base necessity that should be baked into the human condition is basically anathema to the theoretical worldview. This worldview tends to persist as long as one is lucky enough to never pick up one of those meddlesome chronic conditions of existence whereby one has to rely on others to merely exist.

I'm convinced the United States has attracted a type of psychopath that just thinks money is the end all be all of existence, instead of social cohesion, and we're all suffering for it.