Comment by Aurornis

> They are not buying the latest igadget, or really anything chinese/gloablist for that matter, except for whatever junk at dollar tree. They buy flour, they buy gas and they pray their car doesn't break down.

You don’t understand how interconnected the economy is.

You don’t really think that flour appears on the shelves at the store without any coupling to internationally-sourced goods, do you? The parts for the farm equipment, the steel for the buildings it’s stored in, the vehicles that deliver it to the store.

This idea of the economy as an ultra-simplistic 1:1 line between raw product and the supermarket shelves is not how the world works.

Ignoring that, you conveniently glossed over the part about their car breaking down. What happens now when their car does need new parts? Tires wear out?

It’s also absurd to claim that poor people don’t enjoy things like access to cheap cellular phones.