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The cost of being: A high school teacher dreaming of life without checkout anxiety
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this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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I do wish journalists didn't do this.
I remember an article a while back with a beneficiary complaining about not getting to buy much icecream.
It makes it sound like spoilt people whining over nothing, whereas plenty of people's wish list is mostly just nutritious food, medicine, or being warm enough.
It's just a fairly general questionnaire, it's not a budgeting document meant to account for every single dollar they spend.
I think it's more concerning that even people on $100K+ are feeling financial anxiety. I know there are those on less making it work, but if those on six figure incomes are feeling the pinch - imagine what a vast majority of kiwis are feeling right now.
Yes, I get the impression most people are worse off lately. Devil take the hindmost seems to be turning into devil take the entire bottom half.
I wonder what conclusions they will come to about what to do about it...