Buying quality is certainly better than buying cheap rubbish. I agree with you on that. That’s not to say that a more expensive item is better quality than a cheaper item, of course… because there are many higher-priced items that use their price as a marketing tactic. We’ve all seen that sort of thing!
If someone on a limited income can swing purchasing good quality items, I would never begrudge that. I do prefer the “save until you’ve got the money for it” approach because once you’ve bought an item, you can’t manoeuvre if an emergency crops up and makes the payment schedule difficult/impossible.
It is frustrating, of course, if people receiving financial support from the government use that money to drag themselves down, feed an addiction, do things that keep them trapped financially … yet in a democracy we value personal choice. There’s no perfect system, after all, much as I wish there were.
