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Follow the money. The same agenda that reduces the ability to migrate within the US for work, also includes increased in-migration that increases the already-savage competition for available income streams.

For an increasing number of US citizens, their vehicle is also their only shelter. Global elites prefer that anyone unable to meet inflated rent costs, live in a tent or just bed down on sidewalks.

When citizens cannot follow the available workflows, they are trapped and at the complete and utter mercy of merciless elite rentiers. The noble-sounding "waste reduction" narrative is their business case for imposing indentured servitude.

Liberty is, to a great degree, the right to make mistakes and learn from them. It's a matter of striving, and errors in judgement have an associated amount of sunk cost. That cost is visible as "waste."

Take one aspect; the clothing allowance. Meeting their target is an inherent praxis of rationing. That's what increased prices do; create a choice architecture whereby one need is sacrificed for another. It's economics 101, and absent an infinitude of resources, will always be a fundamental fact of life. Too bad if you ripped out your pants during a fall when out camping; you have a ration of needles and thread, use them and don't go camping again because you might require replacement clothing afterward.

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