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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
You sound so far out of touch you should go into politics. There are plenty of families already with only 1 car (or none), who can't take vacations, and are renting a 2 bedroom suite because they can't afford to buy a house. They don't need the extra challenge of trying to figure out who watches the kids when their school has an unexpected closure
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Um, fking obviously.
But you're totally out of touch if you don't think there is a giant group of middle class people working their asses off for material goods and too-expensive vacations that then forces them to work way too hard and take on too much stress to try to live a better life when that approach results in a worse life.
You honestly aren't aware of people with a couple cars, a too-big house in a too-expensive neighbourhood that need to get away to a sun destination annually yet complain about how long they'll have to work and how hard it is to keep that pace?
Yeah, a poor family eating ramen for dinner every night has no fat left to cut, but there are absolutely tens of thousands of people in Calgary and everywhere else living a very high standard of living they are sacrificing greatly to maintain.
With your logic why don't we keep going down? A poor family in a rental apartment has it bad? What about the guy living in a tent along Deerfoot? And you think he has it bad, go live in a refugee camp in Sudan.
My point is totally reasonable and applies to a ton of people. I realize it doesn't apply to every human on earth.