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It's hard to buy better stuff when you can't find work that pays enough for it. The problem is bigger than the purchasing decisions individuals make.
by rainbowmverse 9y ago
It's hard to buy better stuff when you can't find work that pays enough for it. The problem is bigger than the purchasing decisions individuals make.
- blizkreeg 9y agoPeople can't buy better stuff because they don't have jobs or jobs that pay well enough. Those jobs leaving are what helps them buy the cheaper stuff. Quite the roundabout, isn't it?
- jeirje88382hj 9y agoYeah except those jobs began to leave due to the actions of government and the elite. Let's not wrap well documented history in overly reductionist loops to sound smart. This isn't a natural economic process. It's based upon decisions made by the rich to keep getting richer. The process played out a century ago when factories left urban centers for rural. Humans go in room, come out of that room talking austerity of some kind for the masses. It's not a mystery. Economics is not physics.
- taurath 9y agoIt’s more like a spigot that is draining into corporate coffers, and out of the communities. There’s not much money left and what does move around all doesn’t stay in or anywhere near town.
- virmundi 9y agoTo be fair, even local mom and pop stores still purchased the majority of the supplies they sold from out of town. Few cities could produce all of the goods, or even the majority of the goods needed on their own. So yes, DG takes some of the profits, but there are local employees making money to then spend in the local economy.
- yahna 9y agoThere is lots of reasons to not buy better stuff. I own mostly cheap furniture because good stuff is a very expensive commitment, for example.
- nejenendn 9y agoYup, this is a problem of money draining from rural america. There are many symptoms.