If you can only save $2.5k a year, and you're spending that instead on breakfast rather than other things, then you clearly don't have the will to save even if you earned a lot more.

Are you aware that 'being poor' existed before the modern era? And that it's normal for young adults to have a below average wage? And that while the percentage of people renting has increased a little recently, it's not that much higher than 70 years ago?