I used to be a lot more sympathetic towards homeless people until I had to work and live in a shitty neighbourhood in an increasingly shitty city.
My sympathy has mostly dwindled away at this point. I wasn’t paid enough to have deal with the unstable crackheads trying to break into my store’s stock room. A friend of mine has been attacked on transit twice in the last couple years while just trying to mind her own business. The train stations are fucking overrun with homeless people. The city couldn’t be assed to even wipe blood off the wall for weeks after someone got stabbed in a train station.
I wish I had the power to do something about the massive systemic problems that creates this mess, but I’m outvoted by the huge amount of conservative dipshits in my province. I’d settle for being able to walk around my neighbourhood without the risk of getting stabbed at this point, but I don’t get that either.
So I stew in quiet resentment.
I just found they’ve been hiding extra charges on our bill, things that are supposed to increase by one dollar increase by two when you add, that kind of shit. I think I might cash out whatever points I have and start ordering elsewhere, AI ads are icing on the shit cake