If you need help covering your basic food intake, it’s a poor choice to spend it on a “luxury”. Or if you can afford to waste money on a luxury, you clearly don’t need help with your basic food intake take.
Yeah that ignores that people aren’t machines, but there’s a logic to it, ven without blaming it on puritanism
You’re forgetting that alcohol is also a vice. It’s a known variable that even in times of strife and uncertainty, vice still sells — if not more so. They’re commenting on the embedded messaging of too-poor-to-deserve-it that fosters divisiveness among us poors.
Right I was trying to get that across. Their logic is why should you waste my money on something not required to live. But the answer is because I’m human.
If you need help covering your basic food intake, it’s a poor choice to spend it on a “luxury”. Or if you can afford to waste money on a luxury, you clearly don’t need help with your basic food intake take.
Yeah that ignores that people aren’t machines, but there’s a logic to it, ven without blaming it on puritanism
You’re forgetting that alcohol is also a vice. It’s a known variable that even in times of strife and uncertainty, vice still sells — if not more so. They’re commenting on the embedded messaging of too-poor-to-deserve-it that fosters divisiveness among us poors.
Right I was trying to get that across. Their logic is why should you waste my money on something not required to live. But the answer is because I’m human.
Apologies, I misread the first bit as a statement not a quote. We’re on the same page.