This just infuriates me

[BigmanPigman]

29. I just realized I make a lot less

than my neighbors, friends and family when none of them got a CA refund/support for low to middle incomes and I did. I thought they made more from investments, spouses, double and triple dipping pensions, etc. Meanwhile I am sitting here inside an apt in San Diego and it is 62 degrees inside and I can't afford the heat (I wear double layers from literally my head to my toes). I could never eat out or travel, even before Covid, due to the costs. My careers both were lowing paying and every cent I saved could be lost due to my healthcare.

On the bright side, I have learned to live frugally and most people have no idea how to save wasted food, recycle clothes, plastic, foil, etc and this helps the planet. I don't have to learn how to live without eating out during Covid since I never could anyway. People would recycle more if they HAD to, not WANT to, like during the Great Depression.