AIBU to believe that the cost of living crisis is a load of nonsense

[MaryWils24]

So I wake up this morning to find that 14 million people are trying for Oasis tickets. A mediocre rock band and a “reunion” tour just to create a retirement fund for two already multi-millionaires.

The question is - where are so many people getting the money from to buy tickets? On one hand people moan about the “cost of living” but can easily find £500 to fund this nonsense.

Madness.

People should stop moaning about the cost of living if they can waste money on things like this. They are either getting too much income from their job/benefits (if they can afford this) to complain about “cost of living” or they should stop moaning about increasing food/fuel prices!

Rant over!

I can't vote on my phone so add mine to the YABU massively

Ooh and what about all the povvos making poor financial decisions buying tickets to oasis while I can afford to see taylor swift. Completely different though because the handful of people I've seen to buy tickets look poor. Even though my own mother wants tickets 😂

You seem to have no response to the idea that people are outraged at the cost of basic things for living life, which in turn impacts their fun, but doesn't mean they have no money for fun, just less.

Some are hit really hard by the cost of living and are struggling to feed their family. Some are hit but it impacts them differently, their disposable is less. They're still allowed to complain. They're still allowed to do things that make them happy with their (now reduced) disposable income.

That's who you're seeing. It doesn't mean the CoL crisis is nonsense. It just means it affects those people differently to how you interpreted it was.

@Cinnamonkie

Yes. Everyone. Every single person in the uk all moaned about being skint and are all now try desperately to get oasis tickets 😂

Not everyone obviously, but ‘friends’ (loose term) & plural, not one friend.. a few… I have on social media who definitely don’t have a lot of money have bought tickets. I guess some peoples skint is different to other people’s.

Definitely not wrong there but nobody knows the ins and outs of others finances. Obviously some people with put it on credit but some will go without to afford it, some will use savings, some will have it as a birthday/Christmas gift etc
I also think it's fine to be quite well off and moan that your bills have gone up, doesn't mean that you're not financially responsible for having a moan abohtthe cost of things

The 'cost of living' effects every one slightly (the working class are struggling to make it through the month and cutting all luxuaries, the middle class can't save as much to move up the ladder, the rich are moaning that their expenses increased slightly) but its only destroying the poor... none of whom are buying £500 oasis tickets.

Do you honestly think the middle class and rich suddenly ceased to exist?

or

That say 309,000 people who are homeless suddenly rushed the library to use the computer to order oasis tickets with the £500 they magically tripped over on the way there?

You didn't think this through before you posted it, did you?

Sounds like OP graduated from the Liz Truss School of Economics.

I queued for tickets, gave up after 2 hours. I'm 60. No young children to pay nursery for, no DC's at Uni to support, low mortgage etc.

A lot of those really struggling at the moment are those not in a similar position to me plus they won't even have been born when Oasis were first around.

I have never been more relieved that the Tories were (finally) voted out. Everything that made the Tory years so disastrous from an economic standpoint is on display in this thread (although even Tory politicians are unlikely to use the absurd concept of the deserving vs. the undeserving poor, nor would they be likely to draw some of the highly questionable conclusions that the OP has). It's such a relief that a Labour government will be in control for the foreseeable future.

4 out of 5 people disagree with you. And you think that's a good sign?

It's clear maths isn't your strong point.

And what an odd way to spend a Saturday.

So 80% think you're revolting, but you focus on the "sizeable" minority 😂😂😂

We are one of the most unequal societies in Europe, possibly in the developed world. That is before you consider individual priorities.

It probably was not 14 million individuals, once you take away bots, people trying via multiple accounts, it will be a bit less.

I would like to think that some people will have taken my advice from here on board

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Well, that said people can rarely see beyond their own ways.

Just don’t moan about poverty and cost of living as in most cases people are the architect of their own misery.

You actually believe that 😂 thanks for the laughs honestly, you've been hilarious

What a load of insensitive bullshit.

OP is one of those who can't see beyond their own ways.

People don't have to be poor to be worse off from the COL , and they can complain all they like

And it's just not true and extremely rude to say that most poor people are there through their own fault. Tell that to the ill, the disabled , those who gave up their career to look after others, those who worked years for an employer only to lose their job and find agism agaisnt them ....

Not saying people don't make bad choices, just not stupid enough to think it's that simple

Those who are ill or disabled receive extra help and support through the benefit system. People who “gave up” their career (whether to look after others or otherwise) did so voluntarily, and of their own free will. They would have been better off for themselves continuing to work, maintaining an income, and putting the care burden for their friend/relative on the state.

We couldn’t afford to buy a new car outright. We had a 10+ year old car that we were forever spending money on sorting out, as we clock up quite a bit of mileage.

with the company we now lease through, you have a 24-36 month contract, we can afford the monthly payments without issue.

at the end of the contract we can buy the car at a discounted price subject to T&Cs. They also do maintenance/MOT/services etc for an extra £25 a month which we have taken up because it has made it easy and they’ve been really good if we’ve ever had any little issues.

We haven’t bought the car at the end of the contract, we’ve just taken out a new lease on a new car, but it’s provided us with a reliable, safe, comfortable and up to date car when we’ve been expanding our family and safety has been a priority.

we only have this and our mortgage, everything else we pay for outright or don’t have it, apart from holidays/big purchases which we do on credit card for financial protection if there are issues. We always pay it back on time.

my point is, people can make their own financial decisions for a variety of reasons, be comfortable AND still see the effects of the COLC. It’s not mutually exclusive. I still don’t think food should be so expensive. I still think companies shouldn’t be extorting us for money during a cost of living crisis while then reaping the biggest profits they’ve had for years.

So your taxes can be used to fund care for someone by the state but not if that care is from a parent.

That's almost as good as don't spend money on decor but don't buy cheap decor 😂

Millions might beable too but Millions also can't afford too jeez some people can barely afford to feed there family!!!

Are you advocating going back to the days of putting children in asylums? You do realise it is exceptionally difficult to get state care for children?

… and I still feel empathy for people who are genuinely struggling AND think they are entitled to a “little treat” for morale as much as anyone else is - whether that’s the odd takeaway, getting your eyebrows done or Oasis tickets.

or should we just expect everyone to wallow in their own sad circumstances and never want to enjoy themselves? Most people who are on UC are still working hard, they just don’t have wages sufficient to cover COL