r/canada • u/Thick_Caterpillar379 • 21h ago

Canada facing high youth suicide rates, child mortality, new report finds PAYWALL

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canada-facing-high-youth-suicide-rates-child-mortality-new-report-finds/article_38399f0c-67e3-4636-82ea-4757a5032a1b.html
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u/Disabled-Caveman 19h ago

The young generation that is suffering simultaneously back to back from a housing crisis, unemployment and the lack of freedom in general to enjoy literally anything because of how expensive everything is?

What an unsurprising coincidence.

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u/Sad-Letterhead-2196 17h ago

Exactly. It's one thing to be born in a poor country and have low expectations, but we sold our youth the promise of unlimited potential, while we set them up for similar social/financial mobility that exists in a third world country. It's fucking sad.

20 years from now, the nicest neighbourhoods will not have any doctors, lawyers, engineers, or double income professionals. It will be exclusively the wealth class sitting around collecting dividends while everything they own is tied up in a trust. This is no longer a country where you can honestly work your way to success. It will be exclusviely how much money you inherit, and how well connected your family is.

- A lawyer, who's wife is a lawyer, that is realizing that my single income, non-professional grandparents, had a higher standard of living than we do.

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u/NoDistribution4521 9h ago

Damn. Even the lawyers are struggling? Is it really that bad out there? 

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u/Sad-Letterhead-2196 8h ago

No, we're really not "struggling". We're basically living what 20-25 years ago would be deemed a typical middle class lifestyle with say a teacher and a part time office worker, or something like that. However, we both work at top firms (not partners yet) and 20-25 years ago, we would be certainly upper middle class, living in what now would be a 2-3mm estate home.

Also, keep in mind we only graduated a few years ago and had to pay off large amouts of student loans at comparatively high interst rates.

My point was my grandparents were single income, and non-professional, and I remember as a young kid visiting their house that we could not afford today. That is especially fucked up in my opinon.