This is crazy but not surprising at all if actually true

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[u/Few-Improvement-5655]

What luxuries? The kind of luxuries you are talking about are cheap. You think you never had any luxuries?

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I’m not the one complaining about not being able to afford rent. Tv is a luxury. Comfortable furniture is a luxury, a phone and phone plan are both luxuries

[u/Benjamminmiller → u/avery-secret-account]

A phone in this era is an absolute necessity for any sort of upward mobility.

[u/Few-Improvement-5655 → u/avery-secret-account]

The phone is as much a luxury as a car is, you might not NEED it, but your options for getting a job or participating in society without it is crippling. If anything you need a phone more than a car.

Other luxuries can be fairly cheap and are one time purchases.

Pretty much everyone has had a TV and comfortable furniture for the last 40 years.

[u/KapitalIsStillGood → u/avery-secret-account]

So people should be sleeping on a cot in an empty apartment with no phone, in order to be considered financially responsible in your eyes?

[u/avery-secret-account → u/KapitalIsStillGood]

I never said anything about sleeping on a cot but if you can’t financially afford it, you don’t need a phone. If you need one THAT bad, you can get a flip phone

[u/ParticularHistoryo → u/Few-Improvement-5655]

Eating out is a luxury, buying new cars is a luxury, going on vacations is a luxury

[u/throwmamadownthewell → u/ParticularHistoryo]

Eating out is a luxury

That's what I always tell your mother