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It honestly feels like I’ve been forced into poverty by all levels of government. I’ve lost all my savings, I can’t get a job, with a degree and 500-1000 applications, I can’t afford my rent anymore. I do career counseling and my career counsellor doesn’t even show up to her own appointments. I’m never going to be able to afford to buy a home or other wealth building assets, even though both my parents were millionaires.

What the fuck is the problem with this country? Why should any of us continue to be proud of this society that we have? I feel like my own government hates me and has been punishing me and all the younger generations ever since I was born, while actively bailing out millionaires and billionaires and engaging in increasing levels of corruption and bad faith. Nothing that I can do to build a better life works anymore.

I’m turning 30 in a few months, but life has felt so hilariously hard already that I can’t picture any future for myself. Our entire modern society is superficial, backwards and broken, and nothing really matters at the end of the day except for imaginary currency that is aggressively gatekept from most people.

Everything that I’ve experienced in life has been downhill. The state of politics and international relations is worse than it’s ever been since WW2. Most young people can’t afford homes anymore and live with at least one roommate. Jobs are impossible to get, and you are completely replaceable.

Everywhere I go I see absurdly rich people who have a lifestyle that I could never even imagine. They have mansions, luxury cars and jewelry. They don’t have to struggle with any of the things regular people do. They have money simply because they have it, and their money makes more money.

I’ve struggled with being bullied, being neurodivergent, and having poor mental and physical health for a long time. I can’t seem to find any stability in my life even when I am trying so fucking hard. At the same time, I see people who put no effort into anything, and somehow everything falls into their lap.

I genuinely believe that having a good life boils down to luck and money, of which I have neither. Hard work and perseverance has almost zero impact on anything. You can try to convince yourself that it does, but that’s a cope. At this point, I’m near bankruptcy, severely depressed with multiple mental and physical issues that will probably never go away.

I apply for jobs every day, I’ve applied for government assistance which has been repeatedly denied. I have a degree, and 4 years of work experience and I can’t even get a job flipping burgers. I can barely afford my rent each month. My parents have never really been that supportive even though they aren’t bad people, and my mom committed suicide a few years back.

After my mom died, my dad kicked my sister and I out because he couldn’t deal with having us around. My sister is developmentally disabled and shares an apartment with me, and I’m responsible for managing our living situation together. If I were to die, my dad would not let her move in with him and his girlfriend even though they have a 3 bedroom house of which they only use one bedroom.

I don’t really see any silver lining or happy ending. My dad is 70, and still working with no savings, despite him and my mom being millionaires when they were still married. They both gave all of their life savings to scammers. My sister may never be able to live by herself. Even with me working with an employment counsellor and making hundreds and hundreds of applications, I can never be the perfect robot that employers seem to want.

The world is burning. Everybody is getting poorer, everything is getting shittier. It seems like there will be two classes of people in the future, haves and have nots. The state of politics, pollution, climate change, AI… I genuinely just don’t see anything to look forward to anymore. At least if my sister were to have someone to look after her, I’d be able to die without turning her life upside down.

So I just keep waking up every day and doing the bare minimum I can without completely breaking down again, hoping that someday my situation might be different. But honestly, I know that it won’t change. I don’t really believe in positive change anymore, and I only expect bad things to come. This is quite literally what I’ve learned by living. If you believe in good things, you always get let down.

That’s it. They both worked jobs with great salaries for 50 years, owned/inherited multiple properties, each received large cash inheritances, one of which was almost 1.5 million. From what I can gather, their net worth was over 3 million in 2012.

Fast forward to 2026, mom went bankrupt and offed herself, dad lost his entire life savings and refinanced 50% of his house back to the bank because he was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and could not pay it off despite making 100k yearly.

Our whole family combined has less than $400,000 now, and that entirely consists of what equity is left in my dad’s one property. My dad is using that as his retirement fund at 70. To this day he talks to me as if he has everything under control.

I have come to accept that nobody is owed anything in life, but it’s still incredibly disappointing that so much money was wasted by them. Even $10,000 would change my life right now, but they threw it all away like it was nothing.