Am I the only one who thinks scrimping and saving can go and get fucked for bare essentials

[Freedomfromunfairbills]

All the advice about cost of living seems to be ways you can scrimp and save to possible cobble together enough money to stay alive on bare necessities such as food, water, etc. Am I the only one thinking fuck this we just should not accept this when many of the companies jacking up their prices are making record profits. Even if it’s technically possible why on earth should I give up new clothes, gadgets, TV, holidays abroad, ect all to fund the obscene riches of the one percent. Instead of this advice on how to possibly meet these we actually need to say on mass no we are not surfs under the feudal system and we refuse to become a peasant class enough is enough. We should demand the government steps on and nationalises these companies and demand immediate taxes on the ultra rich to fund it all. I’ve always been fairly right wing and conservative but surely this is simply some kind of feudalism that will reduce many of us to little more than peasants and ruin the quality of life for many. Aibu?

“Demand the government…” How do you suggest this happens? We don’t live in a mob rule country.

I don’t disagree that the inequality is bloody awful. But with the current government, indeed with the current political system, there’s not much we can do about it.

Good luck with the demanding...

Why would the rich pay for it all?

I think people are too stupid to realise that the rich have everyone else's money

They didn't make it - they just sold you something at a price you were (mostly forced) to buy...

So whilst we are protesting and rioting to persuade the government to do something ... we still have to buy food, and power. Until the prices of those come down again, some have no choice to cut down on television, gadgets, holidays. Changing things takes time. I don't suggest we be complacent, but we do have to live in the here and now.

I think you mean serfs not surfs.

So in essence then you would go for a shopping spree and a holiday rather than pay your gas bill? A CCJ and poor credit record is heading your way. You sound very entitled.

Even if it’s technically possible why on earth should I give up new clothes, gadgets, TV, holidays abroad, ect all to fund the obscene riches of the one percent.

I hadn't really thought about it that way before, but you're absolutely right.

It's enough to make me want to find my pitchfork!

I get more and more depressed about the state of the world daily.

I quite often imagine visitors from another planet arriving, looking at the billionaires and looking at those in complete poverty, along with what is being done to the planet environmentally and just thinking "wtf".

Surely either you can afford things or you can't? I don't get it - how exactly would you go about 'not accepting' this? Do you not think that if 'not accepting it' worked, all the people who have ever been in poverty would have said 'enough is enough'?

OP I think you have a point in that I keep on reading about “noble” parents who are going without food so their kids can eat. They shouldn’t have to and that type of behaviour should not be normalised.

I don't think that's what the OP is saying.

The OP is pointing out that life for the vast majority of people is going to get worse over the coming years. But that actually there is still a fuck ton of money flowing in to the coffers of the elite, whose quality of life is looking very rosy indeed.

Once we have people who are employed by mega corporations and yet are having to choose between heating and eating, then yup, we basically are back to serfdom.

That's not what OP means. I get it. Why should the majority cut back to the bare necessities to pay into the coffers of energy companies and line the pockets of the rich?

I do agree with the need of demanding them to do something to sort it.
That is not by rioting, striking or demonstrating.
It is by flipping wiping them from parliament.

Because those with great wealth and assets have only massively increased their wealth whilst the majority have seen wages in real terms flat lining since the 2008 crash.

Well, OP, if you have “always been fairly right wing and conservative”, then congratulations. You have got the capitalist, privatised, free-market economic system you voted for, and it’s a bit late to start whinging about it now. You are the Turkey who rather stupidly voted for Christmas. So suck it up.

Yep, fuck it and keep buying gadgets, holidays, clothing and whatever else you said. It's your life

How do you suggest we "demand" the government do anything? There's no upcoming election.

For good.
Voting is the main power we hold.
We can all collect signatures to request early elections. If we get enough signatures in they do have to discuss the matter in parlament. We can do this each month, till they get the idea.
We are not powerless.
And exercising our power does not need to be illegal, violent, detrimenting to the economy or to others in any way.

OP is obviously saying we shouldn't accept it, not that she's going to go on holiday and not pay bills.
How is she entitled for not wanting to work simply to struggle to pay bills and buy food? I don't think wanting some luxuries is a bad thing at all. Who wants to go to work just to pay bills and buy essentials? Then spend the rest of the time thinking how lucky you are to be able to do that, since you can't afford to go out and do anything else?
Quite tight, OP.

So you were right wing and conservative when it affected other people, but now it’s affecting you. You aren’t happy.

I have fixed my mortgage and home insurance. It does not save me money, but I have peace of mind that it will not go up.
I am going to cancel my TV cable current deal and replace it for something cheaper at fixed rate.
I am going to replace gas appliances for electric ones.
We are watching our electric usage.
We have stayed fairly local for our holidays, not to spend much fuel.
We are planning meals and taking pack lunches daily, to save on coffees and lunches.
Otherwise, we carry out as normal for the time being.
For me, fixing the main expenses for the incoming months has the biggest effect.

With the rest, it is only a little difference that we can make.
We are not big spenders.

OP as a fairly right wing conservative this is what you want surely? Stick to your conservative principles work harder and pull yourself up by your bootstraps and fuck everyone else...simple.

So you want other people to work hard to produce food, housing, clothes, a television etc for you, but you don’t want to pay for it?

Why would anyone else want to go along with that?

What you are feeling is unearned entitlement. You can get in the bin.

So in essence then you would go for a shopping spree and a holiday rather than pay your gas bill? A CCJ and poor credit record is heading your way. You sound very entitled

Well I for one do indeed feel entitled to spend the money I earned enjoying my life buying and doing the things I love as opposed to paying ridiculous prices for essentials yes.