Maybe we should have taken lessons from all the 2000s reality shows whose premise was making basic necessities (cars, housing, food) prohibitively expensive and largely useless for working class people
"I need to get to work on time and there's no bus line near me"
"Good news, we heard you work in sanitation, so we put an industrial grade incinerator in your back seat...with a GameCube!"
my favorite episodes of extreme makeover home edition were when they would find a family that couldn't keep with their 1200 square foot house due to medical and financial needs, so they built a 3000 square foot house and put one handlebar in the shower