There’s that old theory by Sam Vimes about how expensive poverty is, told through the example of two pairs of boots. Once we can’t afford anything that lasts, we will be stuck only with things that don’t and the trap door of economic poverty shuts.

Business, particularly capitalist run businesses, will reduce costs internally once market share stabilizes and expansion is not cost effective. Part of those internal ‘efficiencies’ is lowering the quality of the product or service to its minimum sellable quality (aka enshitification). When they have an effective monopoly, there is no choice but to spend too much for too little and all our money goes to the very basics of survival, without regard to quality of life, and only for the duration of our utility to the economy, ie our most productive years.

We are being bled, pressed, tricked and shamed into complete dependency, aka slavery, by people who have zero empathy and care only for their own interests. It is a war being waged against us, made possible because we’re constantly distracted from seeing it for what it is.