Or have lower class families been buying plastic to increase the appearance of their quality of life for 6+ generations?
I get that we're going through mega-inflation since covid. Even before that, if you bought whole foods and clothes that aren't plastic (nylon), the ol' paycheck only stretched so far.
I'd really like to pick the brain of a self-aware Boomer and find out how long it's been like this.
Lower-class people can't conceptualize the future (incapable of abstraction), buy everything on credit (it's "free money"), and only care if the monthly payments don't go over their meager wages (can only do basic addition/subtraction, nevermind complex shit like percentages or compounding).
The current stagflation and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis were created from giving poorfags money they didn't deserve.
It's so painful seeing the way people use food stamps. They'll buy ice cream, candy, cigarettes, booze, and lottery tickets all in one go, and they'll tell the cashier, "Put the food on this card, and the rest on my credit card".