These are First World luxuries.

Where I come from, sure, we have franchises like Gloria Jeans and some others. Mostly bought by drug cartels and black marketeers to launder money. Scores of beauty salons and spas catering to a n utterly corrupt elite.

I’m proud to report I never ever spend a penny on status symbols! Yes, a Gloria jeans frappé bearing socialite commands respect. Talk about ugh shudder and blush.
A handful of upstarts and criminals—That’s where money lies captured. 99.0 % of us can’t cross the thresholds of these travesties. Massive unbridgeable gulfs between rich and poor.
Once the bread basket of India, Punjab is a shambles. Now rotting contaminated worm-ridden wheat is imported for millions of starving people from places like Ukraine. A run on wheat trucks killed a few a couple of days ago. crushed underfoot. It’s eerily like pre French Revolution times. Anarchy is around the corner. And about time too. Heads should roll. Generals, feudals, profiteers, hoarders, bureaucrats politicians prime ministers with Swiss bank accounts full of trillions, enough to pay off IMF debts. Ah, and Supreme Court judges too.