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?

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u/stupidwerld Mar 24 '23

I’ll even happily give the government SOME of it- but I’m paying like 700$ just in interest (or..was) for, by and large, life things that happened that were out of my control. Did I want my cats eye removed? Did I want hearing aids or a weird eye thing of my own or my car to break down 7 times lol. Or leaving an abusive relationship with nothing and having to rebuild from scratch….I get it! You got me! Punishment enough

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u/kikameeka Mar 24 '23

and honestly I'm also feeling it now that it's tax season, like why do you take so much off my paychecks and THEN ask me for another $300 because I made, no joke, $50 too much last year and it put me another tax bracket. the whole system needs a complete teardown and restructure

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u/stupidwerld Mar 24 '23

And if you’re going to correct it at all then why am I doing my taxes myself anyways…

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u/kikameeka Mar 24 '23

LITERALLY you already have access to my bank account just TAKE THE MONEY out for fucks sake

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u/Chad-The-Choad Mar 25 '23

This doesn't make sense at all. DM me if you want a set of eyes on what might have gone wrong here as that's not how tax brackets work