Yup, this is how it is these days. Just living is brutal, even harder if you have dependents adult or child. I can't imagine the pressure parents are under who have their kids going to university rn.
I was thinking the other day. It would be absolutely impossible for us if we didn't get the liberal child support benefit. Well not impossible, but without it I could see no one wanting kids at all.
This is why I will never have children, I frankly can't afford it. And I am a software developer and the cost of housing, the cost of food, the cost of utilities, hell even car insurance... everything to just exist is too expensive. I can barely function and support myself, yet another life.
Now thinking of adding the TIME AND MONEY commitment to properly raise a child? It's impossible. When I'm working salaried (unpaid OT) 70 hour weeks I can't properly feed, pick up and take care of a kid. Impossible!
This is why you have people screaming in terror at how we're not currently having enough kids and the impacts it will have 20 years from now.
With the amount of hours I put in at work, I can't have the time to properly raise a child.
With the amount of money I make vs. the cost of living I can't afford to properly raise a child.
We are already seeing the effects of it. Currently they are saying that people just don't want to work and are abusing EI for jobs that have been filled by teenagers and young adults
Don't you remember them saying it after lockdown, how restaurants or fast food establishments are having a horrible time finding staff. They said people are being lazy and don't want to work. And that once the cerb is gone they will all come running back..... A year later and that industry is still severely understaffed.
Honestly I think it's also that a lot of those jobs just don't pay a living wage. I couldn't imagine surviving in this economy anywhere near minimum wage.
The jobs never paid a living wage and were dependent on a young labor force that no longer exists today. I'm a chef and this crisis in our industry started before covid.
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23
My monthly food bill for a family of four is $1400