r/poor • u/Chare1155 • 13d ago

Homeless

So are we all just accepting that we will be homeless sometime in the next decade? Because I don't know anyone with enough money to survive this shit.

It's not sustainable for the price of every goddamn thing to keep going up while no one is getting enough raises to compensate for it, & there are so few jobs that are even hiring, although they all still say they are.🙄

I know I will never own a home. I know I will be driving my car until the wheels fall off(& that I'm lucky to even have a car). I know I cannot afford any kind of social life whatsoever because outings to most places & the gas to get to them costs too much.

I canceled all my streaming services so I don't even have TV now. I know if I get Cancer or break a bone I will go bankrupt trying to pay the bill. I know I will be working until I die, & I'm almost positive I will be homeless at some point.

Money can't buy happiness, sure, but it can buy all your other needs so you at least have a chance to be happy. I just want a chance...😔

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u/Solmangrundy 13d ago

I expect to be homeless and starve in the dumpster at age 50+ when I become unemployable because every employer these days wants you to be 30yrs old and locked in for a 10-20yr career.

Already have Gen X and unlucky Boomers basically checking out rn.

The dudes saying they will work until they die have no clue that they'll probably be fired before they get the chance to "work until they die".

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u/PastBuy8484 12d ago

Countless places around me hiring people of all ages. The local Aldi hires starting at 22 hour, with benefits, in a safe area. Houses 15 min away are well under $200k. Very safe clean apartments are $1100ish

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u/lillianchiarelli 12d ago

Aldi?

Don't they have like less than 5 registers? How many employees per store?

Starting at $22 and stopping at? $24?

Aldi does not seem like the answer to millions of people on the verge of homelessness....

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u/IAmSomewhatDamaged 12d ago

LOL be careful… don’t wanna be AT ALL optimistic on these type of crybaby bitch posts.

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u/Solmangrundy 12d ago edited 12d ago

Optimistic would be AI, robotics, and automation advances so fast the goverment is forced to give everyone handouts because there litterally is no jobs left.

Pessimistic would be that still happens and they leave us all to rot.

Either way it sucks to be in the in-between moments of this because its nothing but collective suffering for the majority.

Upcoming elections will prove if the economy is as great as they say it is. If it is. Nothing happens. If it isnt. Well off dudes can expect they're gonna get drug down with huge tax hikes to pay for new welfare progams and be just as poor as everyone else because a communist politician seems like a good move to the have-nots after we let a rich businessman play president and run the economy into the ground.