I’m Done Paying for the Same Product Three Times

I’m going to say this the way it actually feels, not the polished version companies want you to hear. I’m tired. Not just mentally tired, financially tired. I’m a single dad in this economy, I’ve lived through enough cycles to know when something is broken, and right now the way products are priced is completely out of control. You see it everywhere. A simple item gets manufactured overseas for pennies or a few dollars, it moves through a chain of middle hands, gets repackaged, rebranded, maybe assembled somewhere else for optics, and suddenly it’s being sold for ten times, sometimes a hundred times what it cost to make. And people just accept it because that’s how the system has always worked. But that doesn’t make it right.