Chapter 641(2/2)
If you find a job through your own hard work and have an income of about $4,000 per month, then the situation will be slightly better, but the various expenses will still be overwhelming, and the monthly fixed expenses account for all income.
80%, tax and insurance 25%, rent 29%, child education 26%, car 5%, water and electricity 5%, food, clothing and transportation 10%, not including medical care.
Basically, it is difficult to have 400 dollars left every month. Even if something unexpected happens, you will still be bankrupt and homeless.
If you can make all the right choices and get a relatively high-paying job, then your life will be relatively comfortable, but various related expenses will also increase linearly, and some expenses that were originally unnecessary have become options that must be spent.
And this is what makes He An feel the most outrageous. Although he can save a lot of money, many expenses are still forcibly deducted by the game, such as:
Buy luxury suits and bags for decent work;
I spent $2,000 to take my child to the Sea Paradise for three days on his birthday;
Social expenses, including the community where you live, children’s extracurricular studies, etc., are also a lot of money;
In order to save money, I am accustomed to paying by credit card in installments, so that the number of credit card payments in each installment is very high, and I have no idea where the money was spent...
These choices seem inevitable, such as buying luxury suits and bags. The protagonist originally didn’t want to buy them, but all his colleagues in the company are using them. If he doesn’t have them, he will be out of tune with his colleagues and find it difficult to integrate into their circle.
Therefore, the protagonist finally gritted his teeth and bought these things.
At this point, He An seemed to understand a little bit what the protagonist's first sentence meant.
The life of a poor person is just a series of numbers, and this number is all kinds of expenses.
However, in the end, this number collapsed.
As the protagonist's consumption level gets higher and higher, sudden unemployment destroys everything, and the entire chain quickly collapses: income is lost, credit cards cannot be paid, banks come to seize the house, and credit card debts continue to accumulate without paying interest...
As a result, the protagonist's living environment returns to what it was like when his father was there.
In each scene, the protagonist's voice sounded again.
"My father has always told me that I should learn from those outstanding people, change the thinking of poor people, work hard, and not follow the crowd."
"Struggle will change your life."
"I've tried hard, but everything seems to be back to the way it was before. Nothing has changed."
"Is my struggle meaningless? I don't think so. At least, I have not become one of those homeless."
"I often think about:"
"If I hadn't lost my job..."
"If I had more savings..."
"If I could save some money..."
"If... I can make more right choices, can I change my destiny?"
The last scene is when the protagonist comes home late at night after a day's work and quietly walks to the child's room.
In the darkness, he looked at the sleeping child through the moonlight and covered him with a blanket.
At this moment, the child woke up, rubbed his eyes with his soft little hands, and asked: "Dad, why do you come back so late every day and never have time to accompany me?"
He was silent for a while and touched the child's forehead: "Because mom doesn't have a job, dad has to work hard to make money."
The child then said: "Then when can daddy accompany me?"
He said: "Let's wait until dad makes enough money."
The child's eyes were shining: "Dad, when I grow up and earn enough money, you can accompany me every day, right?"
"Then Dad, how can I make enough money?"
The protagonist was silent for a long time, and then said: "Money will not fall from the sky. Only if you are not satisfied with the status quo can your life get better."
"We must learn from those outstanding people, change the thinking of poor people, work hard, and don't follow the crowd."
"Only by working hard can you change your life."
The child's big eyes were shining brightly in the moonlight, and he nodded seriously.
The game ends, and the list of producers appears on the screen.
The ending scene this time shows a young man immersed in reading. At the same time, another younger narration with a different voice from the protagonist sounded.
"My father has always told me that I should learn from those outstanding people, change the thinking of poor people, work hard, and not follow the crowd."
"Struggle will change your life."
Chapter completed!