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Food is a perfect example, you've just pigeonholed your thought process to "expensive" meaning "higher perceived quality" but what about quantity? Let's imagin

Food is a perfect example, you've just pigeonholed your thought process to "expensive" meaning "higher perceived quality" but what about quantity? Let's imagine you're a poorer person with no access to a car. You can still buy the same beans and the same rice but you're paying corner store prices rather than supermarket and you can't buy in bulk because you can't transport the goods home. This is an example of poor people paying more despite having less and it's common.

panick21_ 4y ago
Ok but to buy in levels bulk you need a car right? So what's cheaper, buying food in bulk while owning a car. Or buying food at the corner store while not owning a car? Not to mention that with a cheap second hand bicycle you should be able to reach the same super-market chain that most people drive to and pay the same prices. And you are also ignoring the storage issue. If you buy in bulk you just pay for the storage cost. The same goes for waste, the US has absurd levels of food waste. The reason, people buy in bulk don't consume it and throw it away. That what you get when you have a culture where people make big trips to big box stores. Also, what about infrastructure cost. How much infrastructure cost is between your house and that big box store, who pays for that? Also where do you park the car? Free street parking is clearly society subsidizing the rich, and should be abolished. How much does a garage cost? In your world the ideal society is one where everybody can drive to Cosco once a month and load a car full with ever possible thing? So you are complaining on the wrong level. People aren't poor because a corner store is slightly more expensive, they are poor because land use patterns for them and society into ineffective way off live.