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Unfortunately, the demand for things like food doesn’t go down just because you don’t have money
Sure, at the basic level, everyone needs food. But you can get a lot more granular about it. For example, a lot of people buy things they may not need to survive, like snacks/desserts. Or perhaps they do buy items they need, but they usually get versions that cost more (whether that be because the particular store is more expensive overall, or simply because they’re buying items that are more costly than things at the lowest end that still allow you to survive like beans and rice).
The point is, most (not ALL) people can buckle down their food spending in some way or another, and I think that’s what we’re seeing here.
It sounds like you're blaming the consumer. As if we could avoid the current cost of living crisis if we just buckled down our spending.
I’m not blaming anyone but the corporations here. My post was simply an observation of what’s happened, but for some reason people are taking it wrong I think.
Using words to follow reality is a threat to many people’s way of thinking because they want their philosophy to remain unchanged, and new information has the possibility of changing their philosophy.
This is why there is often a visceral rejection of someone who just tells the truth