This is really disingenuous because inflation is not telling the full story of why people spend more. Living
costs more. Healthcare has outpaced inflation blisteringly, and employers provide for it less. IIRC a typical child birth can cost $10,000 in medical bills. How long does that take to save up on $60k/year with a mortgage and a car payment?
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t feel like I’m having a hard time in life at all. I feel like I am compensated fairly and I am able to save money while having fun. But while I am living well now, I grew up in a family where nothing was guaranteed. We’d been homeless at a time. That was with dual income.
A household income of $60k just does not budget well today. Period. Comparing this to obesity is, again, imo pretty disingenuous because the reality of obesity is that the exercise helps very little at all. Exercise without diet does almost absolutely nothing. Diet without exercise however can work just fine.
At the end of the day every analogy has limits but I think this doesn’t pass the smell test.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t feel like I’m having a hard time in life at all. I feel like I am compensated fairly and I am able to save money while having fun. But while I am living well now, I grew up in a family where nothing was guaranteed. We’d been homeless at a time. That was with dual income.
A household income of $60k just does not budget well today. Period. Comparing this to obesity is, again, imo pretty disingenuous because the reality of obesity is that the exercise helps very little at all. Exercise without diet does almost absolutely nothing. Diet without exercise however can work just fine.
At the end of the day every analogy has limits but I think this doesn’t pass the smell test.