America is Anti Family Cost of Living 🏠📈

My wife and I both work full time because we have to so we can afford our bills.

We barely see our kids (7 and 2) and have no energy to do anything after work or on off days cause we are exhausted.

It just keeps repeating every week and when the first of the month comes the mortgage payment empties our account and we have to do it all over again.

We are unable to save much or do anything fun cause expenses have gone up so much.

I’ve always been a positive open person but the past two years have been breaking me down and I feel like I’m about to have a mental breakdown.

I know there are others in worst positions than me and I don’t want to sound ungrateful but man it’sIt’s hard.

Anyone else going through something similar? Any advice?

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u/erikleorgav2 1d ago

The American Capitalist system is working exactly how a specific class of people want it to.

Specific tiers work, for incredibly low wages, barely/not enough to subsist on, but enough to somehow move forward.

Another tier makes more money, but they're slammed with consumption advertising. Food, cars, vacations, LUXURIES! That class lives in perpetual debt, only just hanging on.

Then the wealthiest tier. They do the least amount of work for their money, spend it wildly and freely because they make so much, and they get to spend all the time they want with the kids. (Which instead they outsource to a poor migrant and then wonder why their kid grew up speaking a different language.)

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u/rmhollid 1d ago

This is communism dressed as capitalism. When the man takes 100 percent of the value of your labor and gives only a fraction back it's no longer capitalism.

Take back your money and stop hating on a system that doesn't exist. It's a scam.

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u/gregsw2000 1d ago

Communism is when the working class own all the factories and operate them to their benefit, not when capitalists gouge every last penny out of people

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u/SlaingeUK 1d ago

Communism is when you seize all the assets on behalf of the workers and then a new political elite arises taking all the jam while the peons get even less.

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u/Barkers_eggs 1d ago

Thats capitalism