The Pet Food and Pharma Link

The pet food and animal health industries are massive markets dominated by a few global conglomerates.

• Corporate Consolidation: Major Corporations often own both commercial pet food brands and veterinary clinic networks, creating a conflict of interest.

• The "Cure" Market: The animal parasiticide and therapeutics markets generate billions of dollars annually, heavily driven by chronic conditions like allergies, obesity, and diabetes.

• Symptom Management: Critics argue that standard veterinary medicine sometimes prioritizes managing symptoms with pharmaceuticals over addressing nutritional root causes.

Common Pet Food Concerns

Many pet owners and holistic veterinarians argue that highly processed, mass-produced kibble contributes to chronic health issues.

• Ultra-Processed Ingredients: High-heat manufacturing (extrusion) can degrade natural nutrients and alter proteins.

• Synthetic Additives: Low-quality fillers, artificial preservatives, and synthetic vitamin packs are used to meet basic nutritional profiles.

• Inflammatory Carbohydrates: High-grain or high-starch formulas can spike blood sugar and fuel chronic inflammation.

• Contamination Risks: Heavy metal contamination, mold toxins (mycotoxins), and bacteria frequently trigger product recalls.

Actionable Steps for Pet Owners

If you suspect your dog's diet is causing health issues, you can take control with a systematic approach.

1. Eliminate Fillers: Switch to high-quality, whole-food commercial brands that avoid artificial preservatives, corn, wheat, and soy.

2. Explore Alternative Diets: Research carefully formulated raw, gently cooked, or freeze-dried diets, ensuring they meet macro- and micronutrient requirements.

3. Consult Holistic Professionals: Work with an independent veterinary nutritionist or a holistic veterinarian who prioritizes functional medicine and root-cause healing.

4. Rotate Protein Sources: Prevent food sensitivities from developing by rotating your dog's primary protein sources every few months.

Veterinary care is becoming increasingly expensive for American pet owners. As prices rise, attention is turning to a major shift in the industry: private equity firms and large corporations buying up veterinary practices across the country. Sound familiar?

First they came for us

Then they came for our food sources

Now they've come for our pets

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Below you will find my search results but ask yourselves why are certain areas being targeted?? 🤔 What is in the area of these homes that the corrupt government and the oligarchy profit from? Are there resources underneath? Why did they destroy whole communities? Or is it even more sinister? Is it an enemy? Please add anything informative that you may have. We only have each other now, no one is coming to help us.

Here's the Facebook video that sparked my curiosity:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1021230810740162/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e

I can't get my recording to post on here. Will try to put it in the comments.

I would like anyone reading this to please add how you feel about our supposed freedom.

Who's really free? White males. They literally do whatever TF they want and paint themselves as victims and treat their victims as the aggressors. No consequences for raping their spouses because the woman is their property. WTAF America?!?! There are states that are still like this.

What's united about us? The fact that the Federal government is ruining all of our lives equally? That we're a collection of states within a federal border? Because it's definitely not we the people. Too many uneducated people have allowed themselves to be brainwashed into thinking that their neighbors are out to get them. We are not united, we are divided and that's why we're falling.

We're not free until everyone is free.

This land was once free. This land was once plentiful. This land was once beautiful. Then the colonizers came. The criminal families came. The torture came. Evil brutal white males came with evil intent. The worst illegal immigrants. Places like Germany sent people facing prison here. This was a country of exiled convicts. What do you think they would do? Settle down and live an honest life??? Of course not, they did what criminals do and started criming and never stopped.

In closing I want to share the original pledge of allegiance:

I pledge allegiance to the flag

Of the United States of America

And to the Republic

For which it stands

One nation

Indivisible

With Liberty and Justice

For ALL

This is the one true pledge. This is the way it was originally written. In the 1950s white christian nationalists changed it. It's time to take it back. It's time to take this country away from the crazy children destroying it. It's time to stand up and make our country free for all not just for some.

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I've been dealing with a lot of personal issues and that's why I've been silent. I shall be back soon.

Thank you for your support as I navigate this homeless hurdle. I haven't given up, I'm just emotionally exhausted.

I still believe that….

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How will the war trump started to distract from him raping children end?

How will the occupation of our streets by ICE end?

How will the torture or millions of people around the world end?

How will the illegal takeover of our government end?

How will each person's personal trauma end?

Then we move on to how do we end it questions?

How do we end Homelessness?

How do we end cancer?

How do we end preventable diseases?

How do we educate the willfully ignorant?

How do we reverse the brainwashing of a vast majority of Americans?

How?

By working together and not against each other.

By accepting everyone just as they are and not demanding strangers conform to your personal ideals.

By simply treating each other the way you want to be treated.

We need to educate to elevate.

We do not have to be friends to allow each other to live in our own skins.

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I'M TIRED AND I KNOW YOU ARE TOO🫂

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I have learned of people losing their RV and living in their car, a whole family, for 2 years. There are others that started out like me and someone offered them something to take the pain away and are now addicted to drugs. People with mental health issues and no services to help them.

Being homeless isn't a personal failure, it's the failure of society as a whole.

I am asking for you to please push for income equality. Basic needs shouldn't be paywalled or on a subscription. Every single human being deserves the basic dignity of someplace to call home.

I'm done with the status quo. I'm over the “that's just the way it is” think. Community over corporations, people over profits, we must unite against the oligarchy.

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To keep warm I had to wear a lot of layers but I made it through the week and didn't miss any work. To prepare I put on cotton workout pants, sweatpants, a tank top, T-shirt, fleece lined long sleeve shirt, a pullover hoodie, and thick Sherpa lined slipper socks over thick athletic socks. My backseat is COLD 🥶 when I get back there!! I have a lightweight blanket (can't find my thick one in storage RN) and throw a heavy hoodie over my legs to help. Survival mode is real out here. First time I've actually ever kinda been jealous of a Tesla owner. At least the Tesla can run the heater while sleeping. IF they can afford to charge it every single day that is.

Last week I mentioned how I'm not unique in the least. This week I noticed more people living in their cars and trucks. There's too many! Almost every single one of us has a job. Today I saw an old man that looked to be around 70+ sleeping in his old beat up truck with his sparse belongings neatly stored in the bed of the truck. What does he do when it rains? Do his belongings get ruined? Does he put them in the cab? Why is he homeless instead of enjoying retirement and being with loved ones? I see others and I know that there needs to be a change. How many of us are too ashamed to tell our families? Mine don't know. It's a moral failing in our society and we've been taught to be ashamed.

I started talking to the two ladies that come in the morning to get ready after me. They're mother and daughter. They have all their belongings tied to the roof of their car. We make small talk without ever touching on the fact that we're all living in our cars. Even amongst ourselves we're too ashamed to talk about it. WHY?!?! Because the powers that be have drilled it into every single one of us that we must have done something wrong to deserve it. We didn't do anything to deserve it! We don't deserve it!

Housing should be a basic right. Universal basic income must be enacted. Universal healthcare is a right. Basic utilities shouldn't cost anything. I'm done with this version of our country and humanity as a whole.

I vow that as soon as I'm able to I will be pushing for change. If possible I'd like to run for office on a no party ticket. I've NEVER wanted to hold office before despite many friends encouraging me to in the past. I have no idea where to start or what to do. I do know how to use my voice and be heard though.

A couple nights ago a cop went up to a semi parked on the other side of the bushes in a different lot. I was petrified hiding in the backseat. He looked at my son in the passenger seat and turned away. He finally woke up the truck driver and told him he couldn't sleep there. This person is delivering our goods across the country and can't even get some sleep. Luckily the parking lot is not the same one as the one we all sleep in so the cop just left all of us alone. I felt on edge and anxious until I finally fell asleep. I try not to cry….

I spend my off time hanging around two different truck stops so I can freely use the restroom and sometimes sit inside where it's warm and dry. I fucking hate it! I want to do more, be more, feel more, hold my grandkids and hug my daughters. Instead I lie by omission never telling them my situation. I can't afford the gas though. I watch every penny we spend, every mile we drive, every minute I use the defrost. This isn't living, it's survival. This is unacceptable! I'll never stop fighting. I'm strong and this is hard. I blow up at my son and he me due to lack of sleep and hope. I'll keep striving. I'll keep working. I'll keep taking care of him. I watch his mental health decline. He doesn't talk about it. He says he just wants to work. He can't find a job. I don't push him.

Until next week….

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The end of the first week I was fortunate enough to land an interview finally and only because of a referral from a friend. My application and resume were thrown in the trash by AI within 13 minutes of me hitting submit. AI literally had kept me from getting employed for THREE MONTHS by this time. So if you're currently unemployed and/or applying to jobs my #1 suggestion is to call, email, or reach out on LinkedIn to the company you applied at. AI will ruin our lives every chance it gets. AI threw me away because I didn't fit the algorithm. How many more people are sitting there over qualified and jobless? Why are these AI filters allowed? What can we do to stop it? I'm pretty confident that I'm not alone. Laziness brought about the use of AI for recruiting purposes, recruiters have literally told me themselves that they just didn't want to read resumes anymore. We can vote for laws that prohibit the use of AI for recruiting people, people should recruit people not machines.

I had my interview, sent off a thank you email, and waited. And waited. And waited. In the meantime I kept applying for jobs and got food stamps so I wouldn't starve. Then 6 days after my interview I FINALLY received a call. 6 days feels way longer in unhoused time BTW. I was offered the position and just had to get my background checked. My background cleared in less than 24 hours!! Amazingly so!!! I was set to start the following Monday. I'm now 2 weeks into living in my truck at this point. I'm hopeful and optimistic because I managed to secure employment quickly.

Now I'm employed, I NEED to be as clean as possible and dressed in different clothes every single day. I have a storage unit that holds mine and my son's lives, I'm fortunate enough to not have to keep all my belongings with me. I keep a week of clothes with me, the most important hygiene products, and one pair each of regular shoes, slides, and my work shoes. We have a bag for cold items that stays cold for awhile and there's a store that sells frozen bottles of water and Gatorade that helps keep everything cold for longer. For food we mostly eat things like fruit and grain bars, granola bars, nuts, beef jerky, and crackers. We got a couple pouches of freeze dried meals but they're expensive.

This is how I live each day now:

In the morning I go to the truck stop, I get 2 hot coffees and sit my truck for about 2 hours and wake up. I buy coffee so that I can legally park in their parking lot and use their restroom. It's illegal to just simply exist. Let that sink in. That's $5.38 every morning so that I'm not a criminal. About an hour and a half before work I get my things together and go back inside to the restroom to get ready. I enter the handicapped stall and set up my clean clothes. I use water wipes to clean my entire body, showers cost $18 and I can only afford it once a week right now, cornstarch with aloe and vitamin E to help keep me fresh, dry shave my armpits, put on deodorant and CBD lotion(I'm in constant pain). After getting dressed I go out to the sink area to finish, I try to be as fast as possible as I'm using the handicapped stall but I have no choice. I have full dentures and sleep with them in for obvious reasons. I set up an area on the sink with paper towels and my hygiene products. Now I take out and clean my dentures while washing my face and doing my hair. I also put in my contacts at this time. I feel less than. I'm not alone. Most days I see the same 2 ladies getting dressed in the bathroom too. In the parking lot people are getting ready outside of their sprinter vans, cars, pick-ups, and SUVs. We are many, there are a lot of us. This should NOT be normal but it is. I start noticing the same vehicles and people, I keep to myself, I'm wary, I don't want to embrace this way of life. I can't let this become the new norm for me, I must fight!

Week 3 saw me start a new job. I feel like I'm struggling because I can't sleep properly and my mind is in a constant state of distress. I tell myself I can do this, I can make it through, just one day at a time, I will not fail, I can not fail. EVERYTHING is riding on me keeping this job. Every day I'm afraid I'll be fired. Why? Because my son has nowhere to go while I'm working and stays hidden in my truck in the parking lot. 8½ hours just hiding from people, shrouded in towels on the windows and a sunshade on the windshield. People notice him, no one says anything. I'm perpetually scared. I do my best to be positive and smile while working. It's taking me too long to learn my job in my personal opinion. I'm told I'm doing great and not to be hard on myself. My boss tells me I'm human, it's okay to make mistakes. My last job I was treated so badly that I'm scarred. I keep waiting for the but and it never comes, I'm being treated like a person finally. I'm still scared. I still think I'm going to be let go. I keep trying harder to prove myself. I made it a full week and they like me. I've been so undervalued for so long that it's hard to accept. I will do whatever I can to keep this job.

Every day after work I drive to a different truck stop than the morning one and sit in the truck for hours until it's late enough to go where we sleep. When I get there I change out of my work clothes because they have to stay clean and take my contacts out. Luckily I don't ALWAYS have to buy something at this truck stop. We watch anime and news until it's dark and late enough to go where we sleep. They do NOT allow you to sleep at the truck stops here. We head to our area, there are others here, once again we're not alone. Where we sleep there's a Tesla and a Tahoe that sleep there too. We maintain distance from each other, no one exits their vehicle except me. I prepare my bed in the backseat. It's too short and I can't stretch my legs out, I sleep on my right side in the fetal position every night. I'm in constant pain. I lie to my son and tell him I'm all good. He sleeps in the front passenger seat. He lies to me and says he's comfortable once settled in. I think we both know we're lying to each other.

I have 2 power stations so that we can charge our phones, use the Wi-Fi tower if necessary, and boil water with the electric kettle when needed for the freeze dried meals. I plug in my phone and try to sleep. If I wake up in the middle of the night and have to use the restroom I get some toilet paper and wipes and go outside because it's too much work to drive to the bathroom and that's extra gas. Usually I make it until it's time to wake up and go to the first truck stop.

On Saturday we charge the power stations at the library. Sunday night is shower time and I use my whole 45 minutes to enjoy it as much as possible. The truck stop provides towels so that makes it easier. We stop by the storage unit if needed too. Most of our time is spent sitting in truck stop parking lots because we can't afford the gas to go anywhere and at least there's a bathroom available.

There's a parking lot we sit in some times on the weekend that's shaded and not too hot. This parking lot is used by the local police, tow truck driver, truckers, and people like us to just hang out in our cars, taking lunch, and resting. This parking lot is NEVER used for actual business parking. There's enough space to set up 2 dozen tiny homes. Yet there's a homeless lady and guy living in a hidden area behind a dumpster instead, we'll never tell though.

This is my new reality, I cannot accept it. I am not alone, we are many, it could be you. I am in a constant state of high alertness, I can't relax, I never really rest. I just want to sleep in a bed again, my knees hurt, I'm exhausted and distressed. I'm 52 years old, worked since I was a child, I have absolutely nothing. THIS is what conservative Republicans did to our country. I was raised in a middle class working family. We had our own businesses. I went to private school. Yet my Mom died poor, she worked until she literally could not work anymore and then sat home and let herself die. She told me if she couldn't work that there was no reason for her to live. This is what our country has become, work us to death and brainwash us that it's normal.

If you made it this far thank you so much for reading about my current situation. I wrote this to highlight the fact that I'm not unique in the least, there are a lot of us that don't look homeless, we live in our cars and trucks, we work, we look like everyone else, we drive old and new cars, we don't deserve this. Please vote for lowering rents, rent caps, decriminalizing being homeless, allow for loitering because existing isn't a crime. Help push for real change like tiny homes for unhoused working people, programs to assist people in finding gainful employment, transportation assistance like bus passes and gas cards, free child care for those trying to do better.

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Now I just can't get a job. I believe that I've been flagged. I get interviewed and then ghosted. I have great meetings and everything is so awesome and perfect, we laugh and communicate on a semi personal level, then poof I don't exist anymore. I'm not stupid because I never had this problem before and I didn't go digging until I was at my last job.

This evil is deep. It's rooted in Israel and the Middle Eastern countries. Almost every single old monied ultra rich person is part of this. Even if they didn't directly participate in the sex crimes they helped facilitate it in some form or fashion. I've been saying follow the money forever. The main financial alignments in America are the Rothschilds and JP Morgan and later Chase. They originally helped bankroll kidnapping people from all over the world and shipping them to the Americas. Yes shipped them, as in cargo, people were listed as cargo to further debase them. The top plantation owners are some of the ancestors to the current day perpetrators. Slavery never ended it just changed shape and function. These families are deranged and believe people that they view as less than are completely disposable. Others are not seen as people to them and are viewed as toys, play things, distractions to entertain their every sick and twisted desire.

Please be kind to each other. Be the change you want to see. I'm still convinced that there are more good people then bad in this world.

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HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY

For anyone unfamiliar with my story, I spent the last 7 years making high achieving teams only to be laid off due to facility closure. I was given 6 weeks of base pay minus taxes and told good luck. I had interviewed for an internal transfer and they ghosted me. Now I'm trying to get anything at all and I'm being let down constantly. I'm overqualified 🤦‍♀️ or not quite the candidate they're looking for. I'm too old too🤬.

Everything happens for a reason. Let this be the reason that lets me help others while helping myself. I've started over before and it's not so bad. Fresh start 😊.

P.S. At the request of many friends and family I am working on a book series. These will be short story style. I'll keep you posted.

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This is what Google search thinks about average American citizens and their need to find adequate answers.

Here's the first one:

The second one:

Here's the third one:

This is what the government is attracting. Desperate out of work people that just want to make money on top of sick twisted POS racist thugs. Is there any surprise that they operate like a roving gang of misfits?!?

My idea: try to find the ones in the group that look like they don't want to be there. Thinking about the one that locked their keys in the trunk (I think) and proceeded to declare on video that it sucks and he doesn't want to be there. Once identified we try to calmly engage them in discussion. At this point it's important to remember that some people really were duped into believing that they were doing something morally good, these are our people too, those are the ones you want to appeal to. Whatever words you use be sure that you're not confrontational or accusatory in your speech. Let them know that they can quit, right there, right now, and join the community instead. Help them understand that there's a better way and that the community will help them if they turn their back on this illegitimate administration and join their neighbors.

Some ICE agents have said that they can't leave because they will lose the money that they so desperately need. I think someone with monetary backing should start a billboard campaign saying it's okay to leave ICE and the sooner they do the better. Maybe saying something like, “Are you an ICE or BP agent and want out? It's not too late until it is. Don't wait for the trials to start, leave now.” What do you think?

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I'm reading a book that sparked this curiosity in me🤔🧐

First let's address the magats favorite amendment. The 2nd Amendment guarantees freedom to protect one's self and property (to include family). Here's what I pulled up.

Next we have the purpose of a well regulated militia. Notice we are trying to protect ourselves from a tyrannical government right now, therefore we have every right to form a well regulated militia, using our 2nd Amendment rights, in order to protect ourselves and our communities.

Here we have what the National Guard can and can't do. They can interfere with illegal activities. Every state being invaded and terrorized needs to do this.

Lastly I checked what state authorities can do to protect us against these domestic terrorists. Based on ICE and DHS videos they have enough evidence, add in all of the observer videos and they're cooked.

With just these 4 items it's very easy to see that every state being abused can legally call up their National Guard to protect their citizens from ICE abuse and prosecute them for their crimes. Please share this information with anyone that may not know.

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#1 Pattern recognition: Every single time the toddler in chief gets caught with his tiny hand in the cookie jar he does something monumental to distract from the thing he just got caught doing. Under pattern recognition I also file the every accusation is a confession reels.

#2 Malignant narcissist personality disorder: They are NEVER wrong and when proven wrong will go on tirades against others non stop until they've broken you down and you just want to curl up in a ball in the corner of the bed and sleep for years. Everything bad is everyone else's fault. They are the only one that can fix it. They want to be seen as your savior even though they're the ones that caused the chaos to begin with. Think about the abusive partner that trashes the house and beats the shit out of you, while you're on the floor crying and cleaning up the mess they leave, when they come back they have flowers and something you love with them, they tenderly lean down rub your back and say here let me finish cleaning while you relax. That's our fucking president right now! Instead of reconciliation we need to divorce.

#3 Remember odd comments: Who wouldn't remember that he was heard saying start a war? That's not normal behavior. There are way too many instances of him saying things people should pay more attention to. Remember narsacists have God complexes and listen to what they say word for word, later dissect it and look for extreme comments, those comments are not to be brushed off as someone just saying something while they're upset THEY MEAN IT! You just have to search in the word salad for it sometimes. This is why recording them is important.

So unfortunately everything this sad pathetic sack of 💩 does is not surprising to me. I was raised by a narcissist father, have one narcissist brother, and my ex-husband is a narcissist as well. I have experience….

I hope this helps you and please continue to fight on the side of right.

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For myself personally I found safe culturally diverse areas to live. My children didn't have to face extreme racism because of this. While protecting them I was also shielding them from a horrible reality, people will hate them simply by the way they look. Because of where we live they did not believe me when I tried to educate them on American racism. I told them how I was discriminated against simply because of who I chose to love.

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I lost multiple jobs due to racist managers. I sent the NAACP to investigate one job I was wrongfully terminated from. My now ex-husband and my first born came to my job (retail sales) to surprise me and look at toddler shoes. The next day I was fired. My coworkers told me EVERYTHING and I got him fired and one of the people that helped me became manager. This was in TN and I faced so much racism and discrimination while living there. I was a disgrace to white people in their racist eyes because I soiled my blood. The fact that I'm not pure white doesn't show(I'm pasty without the sun) and assumptions are what these inbred idiots live in. This is literally one of numerous jobs I've lost, or not been promoted in, due to ignorant racists.

After 6½ years in TN I left and moved to MN. Minnesota is like my second home state. I'm a California native but most of my family is in or came from Minnesota and the Midwest in general. We move a lot in our family. The longest I ever lived in one home is 4 years.

I'm not close to any family. My parents are dead, most of my aunts and uncles are gone and I only have a relationship with one aunt on Facebook. I do have three siblings but I have no relationship with the only one living California because he and his wife are racist and he allowed her to call my kids the N word with the hard R while speaking about them. My mom had overheard her and told me. I have a sister in MN that NEVER liked me just because I was born. (That's another story) Last is a very liberal brother in Texas. I have an online relationship with him but we're not super close. I was a party of one trying to keep my small family safe and away from hatred as much as possible. So I moved back to California after 3 years in MN.

By the time I moved back to California I had 3 kids and no partner. I raised my kids alone. I did EVERYTHING alone. Health problems? Me. School issues? Me. Everything was me me me and I actually loved it. I had control for once, if only a little bit. We moved around a bit until I found a safe space for us. Ironically every state that I lived in the safest places were culturally diverse and the most unsafe spaces were predominantly white people. That three different states where I was safer living with people that didn't look like me then areas where I resembled the people was very telling. California is kinda the exception as there are less all white areas. I found one though and had to move, everyday I was uncomfortable around the stares and sneers. I had one goal, protect my children at all costs. So I did.

Fast-forward to today and they're adults and 2 have families of their own. My youngest was exposed to overt racism and inequality when she had her first baby. She was mistreated at the hospital and she knows it's because she's multi racial and so is her partner. After her mistreatment she found out this is a trend(sometimes my kids don't listen to me and have to find out the hard way) and insisted I be there to advocate for her next time as well as not going back to the same hospital. My oldest is tough like me and has literally beat the crap out of racists. So I know she's good. Besides the fact her partner won't allow anything to happen to his family either. My son is with me and hasn't experienced racism as much. He's pretty pasty so yeah. I'm sure you can guess that a lot of people see us together and just assume he's white and Italian, they don't see the black and native American in him usually. That's not even all of the nationalities either. So he “passes” as whatever makes them feel good about themselves. We're all still in California and no one plans on leaving any time soon.

Location is everything. Cost of living high? Yup but not racist AF. Everything else in California that's expensive? Worth it for peace of mind. Living cheaper in TN? Yup but everything else sucks! Literally everything. MN cost of living? It's great. Racism? Pockets of it exist due to pure ignorance. Mostly rural areas with lower education. It's just too damn cold there.

I'd love to hear about your experiences if you want to share. It would be very interesting to compare real world experiences.

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Here are the iPhone prices straight from the Apple website. See how the monthly payment is for two years? In two years there will be a new phone, and two years after that, etc. Do you really need a new phone every two years? That’s poor craftsmanship if so.

Here are the Samsung models straight from the Samsung website as well. Same crazy monthly payments here too. I accidentally cropped one out but you can see it's just as ludicrous.

Next I'm going to share the net worth of the CEOs of these companies. They are billionaires. We as a consumer populous are paying for these billionaires to control us. They play mind games with us by making us think we need these things. We're paying for our own destruction with every unnecessary purchase we make.

I personally have a phone that I paid for upfront almost five years ago. At $500 it was the most expensive phone I ever bought. I still get software upgrades and it still works. If I ever feel the need for a high quality camera I'll buy it separately.

We need to stop funding our own destruction on a payment plan. Once these rich shareholders see a dip in consumers perhaps they'll wake up. Consumers and the working class are what fuels this economy. We have the control, take it back. They only love and care about profits and their wealth, take it away from them by not purchasing the next new shiny object on a payment plan. Don't buy things you don't need just because it's an upgrade. You were living without it just fine before.

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