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A Boring Dystopia
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That wouldn't even cover a year's rent with roommates where I live, never mind food, taxes, hygiene products, utilities, transportation, and all of the other basic needs for a single person to eek out a meager existence.
Now, maybe you weren't paying for those things because someone else in your life was, and that's fine... But that's also a huge privilege--not the kind of support system that everybody has access too. What about the people who have kids or other dependents?
The fact is that a lot of people in the USA are truly living "paycheck to paycheck", and they have little to no money to dedicate to savings each month.
No, no one else was paying those things. A lot of bills were included in my rent so I had very little expenses after paying rent. Landlord was still a wanker, but he died of ~~karma~~ cancer.
Heartbreaking: cancer diagnosed with landlord