I guess I didn't drill down into the exploitation aspect, yeah. The people actually doing the jobs I don't know how to do--mining, farming, sewing, etc.--are at this point almost entirely disadvantaged people in other countries, who are being woefully underpaid and subjected to terrible conditions. (A lot of farming is also done here, but it's still by exploited foreign workers, so...) And a bunch of that relies on other systems too, like farming being done by as few workers as it is depends on fertilizers from the petrochemical industries, which are hurting people EVERYWHERE. I wouldn't be able to afford anything if it weren't discounted in this way. Even if there was no actual apocalypse, and only the exploitation went away, it's not at all clear to me that I would have a way to keep myself alive.