They have to keep on going to work under these conditions because they feel that they are saving their working place. You can surely know how we must feel when we are only able to buy one pair of shoes a year or not able to buy new clothes or worse, not able to buy food. I find that companies are offering jobs mostly to young people. I didn't get paid for any of that work. Living expenses are running at about twice the income rate.
People have to work after work to be able to nurture the family.
We have a very expensive everyday 'shopping basket'. Much more expensive than richer countries. Politics still navigate through our private lives. However, over the last few years an increased number of individuals like myself, have been trying to find another quality of life within our individual circumstances and try to help others in an optional way. By that I mean that while the outside struggle continues we try to offer each other 'soul food'.