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Everybody must learn to cut their cost of living by all means. Learning addition skills and securing extra jobs might be another means of overcoming this hard life. The government must also make policies that will help alleviate the suffering of the masses.
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I don't disagree with everything your said about cooperative. It is one of the potent solutions to the current food and other essential commodities crisis most people are facing due to this global economic problems. But currently, human needs has become very complex and might not be handled by cooperative. Human need more than food and other basic needs to live a comfortable life. And most of these essential commodities are controlled by big companies that are not willing to lose their influence on they have on the people. Data and airtime for internet and phone communication might not be basic needs but they are so essential that some people might not be able to survive without them.
i couldn't help but laugh out loud when I saw the topic. The truth be told, its getting really serious but its not new as it has happened before. Rather than push the government whose priority seem different from the masses, it'll be ideal to look inwards, look towards the solution and learn from the previous experience and how it was solved. We can then leverage the information to create an advanced solution, better than what was done previously.