If needs get subsumed by greed more often, then recalibration is in order I could not believe my credit card bill when I clicked it open a few days ago.
The card that pays for petrol was zero. Zero. The other one was down to 20% of earlier spends. And I consider myself frugal—spending on what I need and not what I greed—and yet the difference a lockdown made to my own spends left me quite amazed.
My age cohort and I grew up in an India of very limited means, choices and options. Basics like milk, water and electricity were in short supply.
Less than five homes in 100 had a phone in most middle-class metro colonies and if you owned a car, you had either inherited it or were up to no good in that business of yours.