people fucking died because of this. people KEEP dying because of this.

“Eat the rich!” they say with their $1300 iphones, smart cars, and Starbucks coffee in hand.

How do I explain that having 1000 dollars extra is far different from having 1,000,000 or even 1,000,000,000 dollars extra?

how do i explain people who have things that cost $1000 are not rich but people who have things that cot over 1 million dollars are

how do I explain to people that iphones and cars are often paid in smaller installments over years and that starbucks does not in fact cost thousands of dollars

how do I explain that the value of a smartphone is practically always less than a single month’s worth of rent and you only have to pay it once over the lifetime of a phone, that nobody buys enough Starbucks that giving it up would pay their rent, that the price of rent is the other half of the cause of homelessness along with insufficient pay, and that owning even an absurdly expensive $1300 smartphone is not a moral failing of such magnitude as to render someone unqualified to cast shame upon the eviction of homeless people for a luxury restaurant in a city where homeless people regularly freeze to death in the streets