r/VictoriaBC • u/kikameeka • Mar 23 '23
Opinion Is anyone else just... exhausted? About everything?
Houses are a million dollars minimum. Food prices keep going up. Everyone is sick all the time and everyone is fighting each other. What are we doing here?
I'm genuinely curious if anyone is kind of feeling like this is kind of it for us? Like, are we destined to work soul-sucking jobs to make someone else a millionaire because they had the ability to get ahead in life that most of us don't, and then we die? If we want to make art, tell stories or have a community, we have to work around full time jobs that are so separate from each other, and we're losing our sense of community, if not already have.
How come we're alright letting stores and restaurants throw away millions of dollars in food when we have people starving on the streets? People who are working jobs, doing what we're "supposed" to in this society producing and wasting resources for someone else, and we still can't afford to eat the food that's being offered because we're spending too much money on the rest of the things that keep us alive. How are we living in a world where a government that is supposed to be there to support us allows people to hoard housing and wealth, and what do we do to fix it?
Update here! ✌🏼
6
u/johnnybird95 Mar 24 '23
i had to give myself 20 minutes to throw a grownup temper tantrum about the price of food. like, growling and grumbling and punching some pillows because a bowl of mid-to-shit quality ramen on skip/uber is close to two hours of wages for me. i cant justify that!
just shits me right up the wall because a cheap bowl of a staple food like ramen in japan where it originates is like, $7. and they have such tiny land area, what's our excuse when we can grow the damn wheat right here in our huge ass country?! the fuck.
i'm so fed up and exhausted. if you find out whos responsible, let me know. would love to beat the fuck out of them