I'm tired of working for years only to just barely be able to pay my bills.
My rent and other bills (electric, water, wifi, car insurance, driver license renewals, cell phone) leave me with not much left over.
Then I have to buy food and clothes.
I can save a little, but sometimes something comes up, like my car needs a repair, or my phone dies, or my shoes get worn out.
All of these things basically allow me to be able to do my job. If I don't fix my car I can't go to work. Most of these expenses are just keeping me alive so that I can go to work.
If I died, the loss to society would be that I couldn't work and couldn't pay my rent. I feel like I'm being farmed, and that I only exist to benefit others.
I tried to apply for a house loan but they said I need a $5000 deposit. I can't save that much money and I don't even own that much stuff that I could sell. I pay more in rent than I would be paying in house loan repayments. And anyway, paying off a house loan for 35 years sounds like a terrible anyway. It would just be slightly better than continuing to pay rent.
Now I hear all this talk about what “should” happen, or how the world “should” be. Well I think “should” is a delusion, the only reality is what “can” and “does” and “will” happen.
You can say that employers “should” pay a living wage or at least be honest about their employment conditions, or that landlords “should” be taxed more, but that's useless talk about something that will never happen.
What can I do? What will we do?