Let me put it this way. In your understanding, why are people who are working constantly and cannot take breaks from work in poverty? They aren't unemployed. T

Let me put it this way. In your understanding, why are people who are working constantly and cannot take breaks from work in poverty? They aren't unemployed. They are working themselves to death. Such a situation would be ridiculous in, say, the midcentury postwar boom, where working people were generally ok. Today a lot of people in that category are squeezed, overworked, overstressed, and find themselves in a very destructive cycle. You say we need to fix the "poverty" part of it, but I think perhaps a more accurate telling is that poverty is a symptom of people being exploited, undervalued, and not being paid in proportion to their contribution to the bottom line. Meanwhile executive pay and "shareholder value" metrics are doing well. And by the way, there are plenty of middle class people who are accurately described by my statements, you don't need to be in poverty to get there.