>>9255
Imagine you have a job that just barely covers the expenses required to keep you employed and off the street. Every time you save up a bit of money by depriving yourself of distraction, something comes along and wipes it out. Well, seems fortuitous that you had just enough money to fix the problem. Well, you spent so much time not doing anything entertaining, that you now don't care to do it at all. Something has made it so that you can't save up any money anymore. Pay cut. Rent increase. Utility rate increase. Whatever. Now you're a paycheck away from disaster.
Work is horrible. It's a distressing mess of fuckups who earn more than you, while you drive yourself nuts trying to keep everything from falling apart. If you slack off even a bit to let others see how hard you normally work, you're threatened with termination. The only other jobs in the area are in other fields, and you don't have fifty thousand dollars kicking around to go to school for another degree in a field that might have its market fall out from under it before you graduate again. So you stay.
Or maybe you have health issues that require expensive surgery to deal with, and even then, would just change the problem from what you're familiar with, to something else.
Maybe people go out of their way to fuck you over and treat you like shit.
Like I said, until you experience some shit, it's hard to truly know it. Though I'd gladly swap with somebody who had the gall to bitch about trivial issues. People with real problems just see inconveniences as individual raindrops in a storm of despair.