Okay guys it’s Tuesday Morning and I’m here with Your MAGA (formerly I’m not a politics person) Uncle and Your “Progressive Ally Non-Binary” friend who’s getting their second masters in sociology let’s discuss affordability.

On the right (no pun intended), you have an uncle who wants his house to appreciate in value, tariffs to lower the government debt, tariffs to encourage American manufacturing so that American (you know what his definition of American is), can work respectable jobs and make quality products for Americans to buy, these will be buy it for life high quality items that will justify a higher price for the American craftsmanship. He also wants immigrants kicked out and is seriously concerned about the cost of groceries.

In the left you have someone who believes corporate greed is taking too much profit and stealing wages from an impoverished working class because of the class war that the rich have put in place to stay in power. They want higher wages for lower paid positions, and want net profits to be used to subsidize the cost of groceries to avoid greed. They also want taxes on the rich to be used to fund socialized healthcare. They also have concerns about offshoring jobs because it exploits vulnerable populations to feed the capitalist machine.

You may disregard gravity and fiction I. This exercise. Using evidence based arguments, how do you convince them that

1. Affordability isn’t really an issue, for all intents and purposes it seems to be a perception problem.

2. What can really be done to lower the cost of things and how their views on wages and free markets are actually contributing to increased costs.

3. How apes together strong, instead of being mortally against each other.

Your responses will be graded using non-AI so results may take a while. Feel free to discuss with your peers.

Bonus: propose a policy that would get both up for joining NATO