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I, personally, also prioritize living life.
What's the point of life if im going to eat rice and beans and never enjoy it. I'd simply resign.
My 'needs' include what makes me want to continue living, regardless of what it looks like from your perspective
My parents would fight about this sometimes. They would blur "need" and "want" together, and that caused difficulties. It's imprecise and, in my opinion, immature, to conflate the two categories. If you're looking at a budget and you smush everything into "needs", how are you going to know what to cut? The electric bill by any reasonable metric is more important than another lego death star, assuming you plan to continue living in society.
Furthermore, "I can't quit my job at [evil megacorp], because then I might not be able to do luxury dining experiences as often" is laughable. Like, sure, there's no way to live pure in our capitalist hellscape. We all have bills to pay. But highlighting "I like broadway" as the justification for "I help build AI used by ICE to deport people"? Come on. I'd respect it more if they just said out right that they don't give a shit about other people. At least that'd be honest.