Ten Billion Dollars Later, Are You Hungry Yet?
We just hit a record-breaking spend on political ads while the price of eggs remains a punchline.
It is official: we have collectively poured more than 10 billion dollars into the void of this election cycle. That is a lot of zeros to spend on annoying YouTube ads that everyone skips anyway.
Meanwhile, the average person is standing in the cereal aisle doing mental gymnastics to figure out if they can afford both milk and bread. Political campaigns have successfully turned the cost of democracy into a budget that could probably solve a small country's national debt, yet somehow the fridge stays empty.
The sheer absurdity of watching these millions burn in digital fire just to convince people to vote for one candidate over another is staggering. It is a spectacular display of priorities.
It is a bold strategy to ignore the grocery bill to fund the noise that causes the stress in the first place.
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