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Or having having to make, you know.
Health care decisions like that aren't good for your life because you can't afford it because it will bankrupt your family.
You're having to put yourself and your family in peril physically.
Right.
That's part of that.
Why the European middle class is much more secure because most of them have universal health care.
They're not bankrupted by a diagnosis.
Right.
But even even on more day to day pedestrian stuff.
So the lower income you are, the more inflation affects you.
Where like if you're higher income and you go gas up your car and you're like, wow, gas went up 20 cents today.
That sucks.
And you just don't think about it from that point on.
If you're lower income, you might roll up to the gas station and be like, oh, I can't afford to drive my car to work today because gas went up 20 cents a gallon.
So that's another issue with the whole thing, too.
It makes it tougher to get ahead when you can't afford the basic necessities because they're growing out of your reach day by day.
Yeah.
I mean, when I was a snot-nosed, know-it-all college kid working at Golden Pantry in Athens, Georgia, I used to โ and, you know, I was working at Golden Pantry, so it's not like I was making any kind of money.
But for a college kid, it was like, hey, it was great.
I had everything I need making that $7 an hour or whatever because my parents were generally paying for my education, and it's like easy street.