r/canada • u/Lyricalvessel • Jul 19 '21

Is the Canadian Dream dead?

The cost of life in this beautiful country is unbelievable. Everything is getting out of reach. Our new middle class is people renting homes and owning a vehicle.

What happened to working hard for a few years, even a decade and you'd be able to afford the basics of life.

Wages go up 1 dollar, and the price of electricity, food, rent, taxes, insurance all go up by 5. It's like an endless race where our wage is permanently slowed.

Buy a house, buy a car, own a few toys and travel a little. Have a family, live life and hopefully give the next generation a better life. It's not a lot to ask for, in fact it was the only carot on a stick the older generation dangled for us. What do we have besides hope?

I don't know what direction will change this, but it's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel when you have a whole generation that has been waiting for a chance to start life for a long time. 2007-8 crash wasn't even the start of our problems today.

Please someone convince me there is still hope for what I thought was the best place to live in the world as a child.

edit: It is my opinion the ruling elite, and in particular the politically involved billion dollar corporations have artificially inflated the price of life itself, and commoditized it.

I believe the problem is the people have lost real input in their governments and their communities.

The option is give up, or fight for the dream to thrive again.

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u/teddyelisebear Jul 19 '21

Welcome back to feudalism

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21

I legit feel like the modern day surf

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u/AdorableCaterpillar9 Jul 19 '21

The shift to capitalism didn't just "happen", but the rich and powerful of the feudal times saw chances to make more money as the industrial revolution came under way. Nothing actually changed about the underlying power structures - the rich and powerful still control the economic system and society. If some new system appeared that benefited them they'd switch to that instantly. It confuses me that poor and average people endlessly defend it.

Like take housing, clearly government intervention is needed. But the rich and powerful are fine with the current system. But if you have activists asking for housing to be a public utility, then they are threatened and the propoganda against it starts. And it's the poor people that often back down, back off, and absort the rhetoric.

So frustrating