Why Does It Cost So Much To Exist?

The 'cost of living' is ridiculously dystopian

I watched The Lorax with my daughter last weekend. In the film greedy businessmen destroy the planet in pursuit of profit. How apropos.

One entrepreneur cuts down all the trees to manufacture a useless product that droves of consumers mindlessly hoard. The absence of oxygen-making trees prompts another to notice a unique opportunity. He commodifies clean…