I just got a raise for the first time in years. Then my rent went up the same exact amount as my raise. It was a pretty big raise too. Office job, skilled. Not like I'm working fast food or something, and it still feels like I did something wrong or something.

Between the slumlords we all owe money to just to exist, and a weird job market, what is the point? I just got out of another thread where someone was reminding me that "housing isn't a right" and it's a wonderful reminder that we're all at the whim of a few companies, it will all crumble if a few investors and banks fuck everything up, and that a lot of the world has no interest in helping as things get worse.

When this eventually starts to kill people more, maybe something will change. I doubt it though.