i live in a tourist town. the majority of jobs here pay shit wages. i know people ( i was one of them for a long time) who live on less than 20K a year, and have forever. they HAVE to have room mates. one person can't afford rent on their own. if they have a kid, it costs too much to pay for child care for one of them to work, its not worth it when you make 8 or 9 dollars an hour and have to pay 5 or 6 for a babysitter. since the tax changes a few years ago, the large employers in the area won't give anyone but management full time, you will average under 30 hours a week yearly, so they don't have to pay you any benefits. they will work you 50 hours a week when its busy, then when the season is over you get 10 hours a week to keep that average under 30 for the year.
people lose perspective sometimes. i get to see very wealthy people and very poor people all day every day, and their lives are depressingly similar.
rich people spend all day working to hang on to what they have, and get more. most of them have very little time to spend enjoying anything, they get up and start running errands and attending meetings, making and taking phone calls till they go home and collapse in bed.
poor people get up and go to work, and worry about paying the bills, worrying about what will happen to their families if they get sick or injured, worrying about the price of rent, and groceries, and utilities, and what happens if the pos car breaks down and they have to get up an hour earlier every day to walk to work.
so just remember...life sucks....having more bread doesn't mean you don't eat shit, you just eat it out of a crouquette instead of a wonder bread sammich...wonder if that makes it taste any better?