I am 35, so not GenZ... Still, I am amazed with how bad the situation is. 1. In my country, I am classified as "rich", yet I still live paycheck to paycheck.

I am 35, so not GenZ... Still, I am amazed with how bad the situation is. 1. In my country, I am classified as "rich", yet I still live paycheck to paycheck. 2. A huge chunk of my wages to go rent, the home I am renting is tiny and has a weird shape (it is very long and narrow trapezium, the plot is clearly a "leftover" between two normal square plots, also lots of stairs because steep incline). 3. And then another huge chunk go to healthcare, meds and medics to prescribe the meds. What is crazy is that my and my wife medical costs per month are higher than the country mininum wage, I literally have no idea how people poorer than me take care of their own health. 4. After healthcare, what remains is food, I must admit I actually spend a little more than most people do there because I ensure my food is of reasonable quality, for example when I buy sausages I buy ones made of actual pork, while the most popular ones are made of ground chicken leftovers (bones, organs people don't usually buy, etc...) or soybeans (or both). My co-workers often are astonished by the fact I don't own an iPhone, and don't own a recent Android either, and thus can't test my own company products properly (the company I work for makes a mobile SDK for indoor location. My phone is an old android hand-me-down that runs Android 9 and can't be updated further).