Say you’re a single parent. Say you have to take medication for your mental health, say you have ADHD and can’t work without it. And your job doesn’t provide health insurance. Say your job pays less than minimum wage. There are entire industries that avoid minimum wage legislation in the United States. Say your parents are minorities and have spent the majority of their lives in a country legally discriminating against them in governance, finances, employment, housing, transportation, education, and in social programs meant to help the poor.

You have no fallback. You are only ever offered debt that you can never return, and eventually they offer you nothing. You can’t afford even a single bedroom apartment. You pick between feeding your children and taking your meds. And if you can’t take your meds you can’t work. You spend every single day perched precariously on a knife edge, one single Healthcare bill or car repair bill away from homelessness starvation and death.

These people are real. There is no possible financial adaption that will alleviate this situation. And if we count up all the people unfairly treated in this society, if we track everyone and see the way all disenfranchised oppressed people suffer injustice - it becomes immediately apparent that the vast majority of the working class is in a perpetual state of near homelessness barely scraping by even as they slave themselves away for the interests of corporations who have proven time and time again they see human life itself as worthwhile only in its ability to generate capital.

The bare minimum before falling into poverty.

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