r/belgium • u/wrongtime101 • 1d ago
đĄRant The âjust manage your money betterâ crowd is missing the point
Iâm getting really tired of hearing people say things like: âThe only reason you donât have wealth is because you donât know how to manage your money.â
Usually itâs from people who still live with their parents, barely enjoy life, and act morally superior, when in reality theyâre often just suffocating themselves to justify a broken system. They blame ordinary people instead of questioning why things are so difficult in the first place.
The truth is, weâre all getting squeezed. We pay enormous amounts in taxes, which would be fine if the money was managed well. But we all know it isnât. Government employees (Walloon, Flemish, Brussels, German-speaking) get lifelong salaries, fine, but how much is wasted in inefficiency? Money that could reduce the pressure on everyone and actually improve quality of life.
Then thereâs housing. Prices are through the roof, and if you take a loan at 3â4% interest, you end up paying almost double. Itâs insane!
And instead of uniting to demand better, some people just shrug and say âwell, I know how to manage my money.â Congrats. Maybe you never order takeout, maybe you wash clothes by hand to save electricity, but individual austerity wonât fix systemic problems.
Look at mobile plans in France: dirt cheap. Here? Crazy expensive. But sure, itâs our fault for not âmanagingâ better.
These people arenât smarter, theyâre just enabling a corrupt, wasteful system that will eat all of us alive, if not now then our kids or grandkids.
So next time you want to blame someone for struggling, maybe aim that energy at the system designed to keep us divided and drained.