However, the solution isn't as straightforward as cutting expenses. It's about understanding needs versus wants and planning expenditures accordingly. A common saying among personal finance geeks is "Don't save what is left after spending; spend what is left after saving". Implementing such simple financial principles could be a starting point to financial prudence.
I can assure you that only few would do that, just that nowadays people have turned the way of living to a competitive standard whereby people don't even care where they are and what they got involved in living and expensive life. If there's an adjustment, then to also stop living expensive life I don't think in anyway we would live a life debt instead a debt free life, I myself have tried all I could to reduce and remove every unnecessary expenses in my family, whatever we don't want at that moment we skip it and go for the most needed ones by so doing we've eliminated lots of things.