It really isn't. In the US we have almost no social safety net. We're cutting back on food assistance budgets, cutting back homeless aid, cutting back medical

It really isn't. In the US we have almost no social safety net. We're cutting back on food assistance budgets, cutting back homeless aid, cutting back medical aid. If you become homeless, suddenly you have next to no chance of finding a job again, and no help from the government. Cost of living is spiraling out of control while wages stagnate. People ate already having trouble affording the basic necessities. We are precariously close to having a starving peasant class.