Fall and Winter are typically the season for this, but I’ve noticed more people than usual have taken up interest in what amount to gyms. These very, very expensive gyms, which market themselves as almost exceptional in how they can help you regain yourself. All the while these “miracle body regimes” are advertised everywhere. Suspicious industry much?
Some neighbors of mine were headed there. I remember this because they were about to get into their vehicle, and I asked “the location is right around the corner, you don’t want to walk and maybe save transport money” and they responded “no, we’re old, we can’t do that” before they rode there and gained entry so they can run on the machine, and returned having used their whole wallet due to the journey/destination. Though not as memorable as the fact they came back with a brand of potato chips with the same name as the place they went to. Nothing like feeding into what you’re there to fix.
How about you though?
Not so much scammy as scary, and no one else seems to have noticed.
They’re building storage units like mad around here. This suggests that thousands of people have been forced to downgrade their living arrangements/housing.
The whole symbiotic(parasitic) relationship between bank deregultion, estate agencies , “standard rental agreements” and planning process seems like a network of self reinforcing scam designed to push prices up instead off offer better value to consumers.
There seems to be no invisiblke hand of competetion doing aanything ti increate the amount of work, or bid down the prices. It is a dysfunctional market that seems to have been wantonly impaired by a nexus of self interest.
As someone who has been homeless, I hate that it is illegal to (a) sleep in one’s car and (b) sleep in one’s storage unit.
The lowest rungs of the economic ladder have been removed by government.