I totally agree with you, as cost of living is like living in hell because of how hard life is for someone to survive.
Just like you said, price of things is very hard and difficult for one to afford, and to have a job is very difficult to get. The way things are in my country has made most of our youths to start indulging themselves in some kind of illegal activities and our government is not actually doing anything which is why corruption is getting higher each day but we pray that God will always see us through and we will also try our best to survive even when it's not easy.
I believe that anyone who gets involved in illegal activities simply because their government refuses to do what is necessary to fight corruption is just interested in getting involved because there are many jobs available in every country that can put food on the table. However, most of our youths do not have patience, they always want to live like their friends and buy expensive clothes. I agree that we come from a country where our governments do not care about our survival and the cost of products is increasing every day, but I wouldn't encourage any of us to get involved in any illegal activity.
Also, the cost of living has created problems in every country, even people with jobs are no longer enjoying their salaries because the prices of the products they pay for keep increasing while their salaries remain the same. Workers in my country are demanding increases in salaries because they cannot continue with the cost of living while their monthly earnings do not change.
But still not a solid reason for you to commit crime or something that would really be illegal but well each person does have their own personal reasons on why the do end up on that path on which its not really something that recommended because if we do talk ways and methods then there are really indeed ways for making ourselves that better but due to lack of those opportunity or even having that hardtime on getting one then this is where
people do end up into this kind of solution. Its not something recommended since once you do get caught then you would really be that imprisoned but due to tough situation then people would really betaking up such risks.
This is why on the moment that you've seen yourself on hard situation because of lacking money or income then it would really be better that you should be finding alternative no matter how small it would be.
We are living in a world where economic situation becoming shit as the years passing by and hitting up with inflation on which makes things even more harder and challenging. If you are someone
who is really just that contented on what they do have now and wont really be tending to make up some changes or additional income, then sooner or later you would
really be able to felt out on what are the things that you would be able to encounter and making up those huge regrets that you didnt act out fast.