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This literally happened to me, only I lost way more than half my income.

It’s horrible, and frequently remembering the life I had is very painful.

I can’t work out what possible upside you think there is to this situation.

Midlife crisis?

On the surface it is an order. He’s using imperative sentence construction with no “please can you” and no question mark.

This is exactly how commands/orders are expressed in English.

“Do this” “Come here” " Go there" “Sit Down” “Give me 20 press ups”.