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		gautamcgoel 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wealthy Americans fuel half of U.S. economy consum... Just curious: what do you mean by "massive spending problem"?

gruez 7 months ago [–]

Probably lifestyle inflation. For tech bros it might be buying a $4000 workstation to "play with llama/stable diffusion". For a normie it might be spending $100k on a luxury SUV/pickup.

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