Why is it untrue?
It's his experience???
I always laugh at "poor" people and their V8 cars that suck nitro like no ones business, their winnie blues at $30 a pack a day, Jim Beam premixed cans at $100 a carton, their latest gadgets including the 400 inch ultra HD tv cos you can't watch a normal size tv and then whinge because they can't afford to live in a decent house.
I'm being oppressed by the man don't cha know.
Yeah look, I'm leftist by nature but all this "BAWW COST OF LIVING" shit you hear today is absolute muffcabbage.
Sure, council rates and utilities will always be an unwelcome whack for lower socio-economic types, but by the same token, there has never been greater access to welfare of all kinds (i pay tax and have kids, give me my tax back and some AND maintain health, education, roads, police and military pls) and even your average povlov is usually replete with multiple of the following: brand name clothing, Foxtel, 3 or 4 wireless devices, wi-fi, a flatscreen TV or two, a fridge full of booze, smokes, non-generic foods of all descriptions.
Having grown up poor and seen my mother work her fingers to the bone to cling to her home when interest rates were 17-18% - indirectly self-inflicted mind, because her choice of men (chiefly my father) was ****ing terrible - those roughly 35-40 and below who think this a tough economy or a capitalist dystopia are freaking kidding themselves.
As with any given generation there are genuine battlers who are struggling to keep their heads above water, but by and large it's the cost of luxuries rather than living that are the primary issue.
tl;dr took a left turn at albuquerque