I kept a baseline of optimism because I'm still fairly young but I think it died when the calendar changed over to 2023 because fuck this country. Literally no one on all sides knows what the fuck they are doing and no one cares that they don't. Or at best, they know exactly what they're doing to best benefit themselves.
I've spent a lot of time recently wondering if this might be the end of the road for me. I have no familial resources or inheritance and unless I sling a hobo sack and hop a train, I'm pretty much stuck here. And even if I did that, it would probably be the same across the country. I will never ever own a house. I won't even own a condo. It's just a vicious cycle stuck in jobs that don't pay enough where 80% of my income goes to rent.
But I guess the worst part is it's not just me anymore. At some point, I could've told myself to just try a little harder, be a bit more frugal, gain some new skills and climb the ladder to something really good. Now? I see A LOT of people who did that and face the same future I do. So what the fuck?
I saw an article that mentioned our broken social contract. I think there's a lot of emotional knee jerk reactions to hearing that and one could bring up any number of reasons but the bottom line is right now it really really seems we are as a country operating without an identity and without a social contract that necessitates a healthy society in general. And I don't think that's a right or left wing idea - it's something that did exist along side our politics in the past. But now that it doesn't, it's really hard. It's not just shutting off the news or forgoing social media: you might as well just be entirely off grid if you want to avoid what's happening right now. And that costs money so good luck.
I wouldn't lend any credibility to "broken social contract". That is corporate media boomer speak and it's innate dishonesty. There is/was no social contract and Canada is not a country with which anyone could hold such a contract. Canada is just a vague collection of family and corporate interests in the form of an antiquated colonial government that exists to feed it's own financial interests. The rest is institutional propaganda and a distinctly Canadian (ie, bland) machiavellianism.
Of all the G7 Canada is the most reliant on the 'low wage sector' (ie, min wage). Exploiting minimum wage workers is how it sustains itself. London, England is the best example of an uninhibited Canada's likely progression. The government set out to "fix the problems" with the lowest quality possible mass immigration. In Canada you've heard from LPC ministers that mass immigration will magically fix inflation, housing crisis, cost of living crisis, healthcare crisis, and all other system wide crisis that they both caused and created. Magic. From the bongs I know that give the blow by blow of London's near identical attempts at transformation the end result: all existing political and societal problems were just exacerbated plus new ones.
Mass immigration did not cause jobs to proliferate or suddenly pay more, businesses did not thrive or expand. The cost of everything sky-rocketed, especially housing and living/existing (food, electric). The government now pleads poverty in that it cannot reasonably provide services (ie, health care/NHS, infrastructure, etc). Street crime has taken on a life of its own. Overall, an all out and grotesque reduction in the quality of life. By design.
The black pill for Canada is there in plain sight for everyone to see since the Pandemic started. You don't need to go looking for it, it even plagues the thoughts of libfag normies now.
But the world could easily be heading into war, which immediately changes everything especially local attitudes and the government's attitude about immigration. Remember Canada interred all sorts. Maybe over time and maybe a banking crisis or 2 enough hosers may sober up between trips to Timmys and the LC to realize they are genuinely poor and don't have a homeland. Who knows, its uncharted waters. How would the government do when it tries to draft the population its spent the last 25 years demonizing as "unCanadian" in favor of people who are by definition not Canadian and would never define themselves as such unless it's to collect an electronic payment benefit.
Still a bit soon to doom especially for a young man. The best bet is to stay off the plentiful and legal drugs. Avoid living in any area, situation, or around people who bring criminality to your life. If the opportunity to leave Canada and obtain a visa presents itself, you may not get it if you have history. For example, the question the US DHS asks you in an interview for a significant work visa is not "Did you get into a brawl with a fentanyl addled drunken gentleman known to police in downtown Edmonton after he tried to cut your throat for $5?". The question they ask is "have you ever been arrested?". If it's a "yes", from that point on you have a DHS problem for the rest of your life. They do not care about Canada and its faggoty quirks, it's all about you. Same thing with other countries especially with drugs and anywhere Asia. Cheerio.
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