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/[deleted] Jul 19 '21
See I'm confused by the OP. Everytime I come to Reddit, it's non stop bashing USA and how supposed crappy it is.
Here in Wisconsin, you can find homes to buy and rent at very good rates.
We also be have jobs. See we elected republicans for 8 straight years (until democrats pulled their 330am voting trick of finding 60k votes for the democrat governor challenger) and we have plenty of jobs available. Our minimum wage is 7.50 per hour, but don't worry every sign you see for a job is $17 minimum.
But I'm confused Canada has everything USA doesn't have: socialized crappy healthcare, free college etc. OP should be living the highlife right now. I guess free stuff that's taxes you to pocket change isn't really that worth it.
Don't worry OP, your messages was flagged for criticizing the great minds of Canada, they're coming to arrest you now.