That’s what most people spend on their phone and Internet connections per month in the US. That’s what the average American family spends on just five days of food.

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sevg 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can afford five days of food, so that must mean you can also afford a Claude Max plan? What kind of logic is this?

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skrebbel 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Fwiw your comments here read to me as “I’m super rich and everyone I know is super rich too, and I can’t imagine that anyone isn’t”.

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dyauspitr 3 hours ago | parent [-]

People spend much more than that on just commuting to work if you can spend $200 a month to supercharge what you do at work and 1000x your productivity it’s a no-brainer.

	▲	skrebbel 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		From what money? Just pause the health insurance for a while? Stop paying the rent? No diapers for the kid? Your entire story only makes sense if you have many hundreds of dollars/euros of entirely disposable income every month left, after all unavoidable expenses have been paid for. I understand that this holds for you and everyone you know but I’d like you to appreciate that for very many people it doesn’t.

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fuzzy2 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes and? That's money that is already allocated. It cannot be spent on something else.

	▲	xmprt 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No you don't get it. If the family just starved for 5 days then they could increase revenue for these AI companies.

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xanrah 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

37% of Americans would be unable to cover a 400 usd unexpected expense* without using one or more credit cards. 13% would flat out be unable to cover it. [1]

Are you honestly saying most families would be able to justify 200 usd a month for ChatGPT?

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2025-economic-we...