What about all the people who were already doing what you’re now doing and have no corners left to cut?
How would they be helped by OP keeping her thoughts to herself and not starting this discussion? I wouldn't be. And that recent Asda thread was full of tips that I couldn't adopt because I've already been implementing them for much of my life, from childhood onwards.
It's unfortunate, but true, that there tends to be more social value for people like OP who come to a realisation about their choices/behaviour and embrace it rather than being compelled into it by poverty and circumstance. Who is more likely to be persuasive to people who resemble OP and her colleagues/community? Social psychologists like Cialdini would say it is somebody like OP rather than somebody in radically different circumstances.
The fifth of Cialdini’s 6 Principles of Persuasion is liking.
It might seem totally obvious, but people are much more likely to be influenced and persuaded by those that they like, than those that they don’t. Given human nature, people are much more likely to like people who pay them compliments and who cooperate with them, than those who don’t. And, unfortunately, given positive evidence in relation to certain benefits of diversity, people are also much more likely to like people who are similar to them, than those who are not.
We see this principle played out often in the world of marketing and advertising. Nearly every advertisement you see will feature individuals designed to appeal to the product’s target market. The more the consumer associates with and likes that person, the more likely they are to be influenced by them.
worldofwork.io/2019/07/cialdinis-6-principles-of-persuasion/