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Originally Posted by Eff-1
All you guys who are so quick to call people "lazy" and "poor" are living in your own bubble with no awareness on how life might be for a lot of other people.
Not everyone can just snap fingers, work hard, and live the life they want.
Lots of people aren't born with parents who can pay tuition for them and house/feed them for as long as you want.
Lots of people have physical or mental disabilities that prevent them from taking on different jobs.
In short, not everyone is dealt the same hand when it comes to life circumstances as you are.
So they end up living on less income because they don't have any choice. Luckily for the earlier generations, they could find co-op housing (which the gov't built a lot of in the 70s/80s and then stopped building in the 90s, which was totally stupid decision). People today with the same circumstances aren't so lucky.
And now they become seniors. On a fixed income. Living on $30k per year, or less.
What would you do if you were in the situation? Just go work harder? Stop being lazy?
Don't get me wrong, given the circumstances, in hindsight of course they made an unfortunate decision to vote down the earlier proposals.
But I don't think for a second that everyone here, if they were in their 70s, living on the same income in the same situation, wouldn't have done the same so you can keep the rent down and still be able to buy groceries/transit pass, medicines, etc etc.
It's a sad situation all around. I feel bad for them.
And the people who point fingers at others calling them lazy and poor without knowing those people's specific life circumstances are part of why our housing situation and income gaps are completely messed up and gets worse each year.
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A few years back, Mrs and I were at a Dollarama picking up a couple things and I commented that one of the items she showed me was too expensive. Another couple in the vicinity overheard and I don't recall the dude's exact response, but he was pretty much mocking me for not being able to afford the item and said it loud enough so that I, and others around us could hear. It wasn't even that I couldn't afford it, it was that I couldn't justify $7.99 or w/e on a one-time use throwaway item. We're not struggling by any means but I always think back about this incident and how useless comments like that from ignorant people can really be triggering for others who are having a hard time.