Yep, but usually the middle and low classes are the ones which receives the more negative impact. There can be others way to get funds, like having oil stations owned by the state, and using their profit as taxes.
Not these ones. In the story, they are super advanced aliens who can cross many galaxies in just a few hours, so they don't need to drink their own fluids, However, their civilization don't have smartphones or AI (maybe some robots, but definitely not Claude or ChatGPT). It's not a super accurate and hard science fiction comic trip but a more "relaxed", satiric and kind of retro one.
Yep, here where I live there's too much difference as well, although the prices you're mentioning sound significantly lower than here were I do. And, by the way, sorry about what happened with your ex-wife 😟
Yep, you're right. But the example I gave above is a symptom that something is broken. Many decades ago, in many countries within the Western hemisphere, a middle class worker with NO university at all was able to buy a home in only 10 years, whilst feeding a family of 4. Nowadays we reached the situation where some cities in the world are renting capsules for individuals: in L.A., for instance, there are renting capsules for living at a monthly price of $750 (check the video about it).
Take in mind that the video above was published in 2019, the capsules price are very likely higher now. Bart Simpson's tree house was bigger and healthier than that. I'm not an economist, but I think the proof that buying homes can be much easier is that it was already done in the past.
No, I'm saying I prefer to live in anarchy and freedom