You'd only be able to afford it for a little while until literally every industry raised prices overnight, jacking up inflation to the degree that normal people once again would struggle to put food on the table.

We need price control laws and high minimum wage laws to boost up the common man's buying power so that can't happen.

That's not gonna be true for much longer. Watch the Republicans plunder Social Security and Medicaid like they've been hankering after for decades.

So what do we do about it? What's the answer?

You know what the sad part is? When you tell people that's exactly what we should be doing, exploring space, etc, they get mad at you and demand you tell them how pursuing anything more meaningful than throwing shit at their enemies benefits them. How it pays their bills. How it pays their rent.

That's why we can never truly go anywhere.