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Lots of people in the west can’t afford 200 a month. How rich are you?
by xanrah 5mo ago
Lots of people in the west can’t afford 200 a month. How rich are you?
- dyauspitr 5mo agoThat’s what most people spend on their phone and Internet connections per month in the US. That’s what the average American family spends on just five days of food.
- fuzzy2 5mo agoYes and? That's money that is already allocated. It cannot be spent on something else.
- xmprt 5mo agoNo you don't get it. If the family just starved for 5 days then they could increase revenue for these AI companies.
- sevg 5mo agoYou can afford five days of food, so that must mean you can also afford a Claude Max plan? What kind of logic is this?
- xanrah 5mo ago37% of Americans would be unable to cover a 400 usd unexpected expense* without using one or more credit cards. 13% would flat out be unable to cover it. [1] Are you honestly saying most families would be able to justify 200 usd a month for ChatGPT? https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2025-economic-well-being-of-us-households-in-2024-savings-and-investments.htm https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2025-economic-we...
- skrebbel 5mo agoFwiw your comments here read to me as “I’m super rich and everyone I know is super rich too, and I can’t imagine that anyone isn’t”.
- dyauspitr 5mo agoPeople spend much more than that on just commuting to work if you can spend $200 a month to supercharge what you do at work and 1000x your productivity it’s a no-brainer.
- skrebbel 5mo agoFrom what money? Just pause the health insurance for a while? Stop paying the rent? No diapers for the kid? Your entire story only makes sense if you have many hundreds of dollars/euros of entirely disposable income every month left, after all unavoidable expenses have been paid for. I understand that this holds for you and everyone you know but I’d like you to appreciate that for very many people it doesn’t.
- gapan 5mo agoSo, should they stop commuting to work to afford their AI subscription? Or perhaps just don't eat anything for 5 days a month?