The crazy thing is the equating of saving as *taking something from someone else* - when it’s the perfect opposite. Saving literally means to NOT consume resources, and leave what you produce in the economy for OTHER people. You can always know which is the more honest route by how difficult it is. Saving is hard AF, spending is goddamn easy. It’s easy as shit to get what you want right this instant. It’s hard to turn away from those things, to buy the frugal option, to avoid the frivolous expenditures so you can have something for down the road. And not consuming is literally the only means by which we can grow capital. Its axiomatic.