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A Boring Dystopia
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Did you just say you would rather die than not get paid?
For some families, that's the reality, not being paid means no housing, no food, no medications. For people who have dangerous debt, not having available money could be a threat to their life.
Obviously your life is priceless, but we've developed a system where you simply can't live without money, and put people in circumstances where the money in their hand now is worthy more to their survival today than twice as much money in their hand tomorrow.
I'm just grateful that's not my situation.
That's a windfall payment and one less mouth to feed in the long run. Morbid, Yes, it's not the best long term solution but anything you can do to survive true poverty never is.
What's to say losing your job doesn't have 3 of you dying from exposure in your car a week after you're evicted?
If you haven't lived the trauma of life and death poverty, I'm glad, but I don't think it's something that can be fully explained.
Trauma changes the way your brain processes risk, people living in chronic poverty don't have the same risk assessment framework as you.