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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
Things are as bad as they’ve even been for a lot of people.
1/4 of Canadians can’t afford food, need to utilize the food bank
https://torontosun.com/news/national...-fall-statscan
Equifax saying from their research 50% or more Canadians live pay cheque to pay cheque
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/half...ifax-1.6849035
Longest wait times ever recorded for access to healthcare
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/stud...in-canada-2023
Good article how general unaffordability traps you in poverty
https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/blog/202...ity-contagious
I’m fine, many of us on Revscene are likely fine. However societal issues like these, selfishly, are a black eye on Canada because everywhere I go I have to see homeless people and drug addicts.
Along with those issues, crime and social disorder tracks right alongside. It’s a lose lose for everyone involved, especially vulnerable people or people with families but have poor employment.
Also, it’s fairly annoying that I have triple the assets my parents did at their age, if not more. Our household income is more than double what my parents was at our age, have zero debt outside of our mortgage, and we live like fucking bums did 20 years ago.
The Canadian dream is waiting for government hand-outs now. |
It certainly feels like things are worse for the average Canadian and there's also plenty of data that suggests that things ARE worse for average folks but at the same time I bet most of them would not go back in time 30-40 years for the equivalent life b/c the average quality of life is actually substantially better today than it was back then. The things that were luxuries back then are now just normal (something as simple as a microwave for example) so "average" has shifted.
For what it's worth, the median household income in 2006 was about $53k and inflation adjusted that'd be about $70k in 2021 dollars. In 2021, median household income was actually $80k so things got a LOT better during that 15 year period for the median household - a 10k diff is HUGE for that kind of household.
A lot of things have gotten worse but on the average things are much better today than before.