#idk some people go less to the grocery store because they don’t have reliable transportation

[maddie-grove]

I wish more people could wrap their heads around “labor rights and a strong social safety net are important not just to the very poor, both on principle and because weakening those things means that more people end up in poverty” and “people at different socioeconomic levels have different experiences even if you disregard the very rich, and people can be viciously classist even if they don’t have all that much money themselves.” Also, if there could be a moratorium on “if you were really poor, you wouldn’t have/do [thing that varies a lot in expense depending on a million different factors].”

#I remember the debate on whether only rich people go to the grocery store more than once a week #and I was like. well. it’s not like they have a cover charge #idk some people go less to the grocery store because they don’t have reliable transportation #some people go more because they live paycheck to paycheck and can only spend a little at a time #or they live with a bunch of roommates and don’t have a lot of food storage #or they go less because they have to plan carefully and buy in bulk #this was of course about feeling that people were grocery shopping too much during the pandemic beginning #and trying to make it a clueless rich person thing