Having grown up poor I can attest that everything is more expensive when you’re poor. It’s like we built the system to keep the poor down. When I got my first m

Having grown up poor I can attest that everything is more expensive when you’re poor. It’s like we built the system to keep the poor down. When I got my first minimum wage paycheck I was astounded by how much tax I had to pay. In what universe does it make sense to tax the crap out of poverty wages? How much tax did Amazon pay last year. Oh right NOTHING. I worked so hard for that and I get slapped while the government hands out tax benefits to corporations like they’re beads at Marti Gras. Poor people can’t afford a good car so they buy a crap one. Why do they need a car? Because they can’t afford to live near the city center where jobs are. Why can’t they take the bus? Shift ends at 1030, last bus at 10. Oh also it takes 2.5 hours on the bus vs 20 min in the car. Which means less time to make money. God help you if you’re in school too. Oh study on the bus. Great. Sure actually did that. You ever study on the bus? It blows. So yeah, car as soon as you can scrape up a couple grand. Crap car blows a head gasket. Now you’re in the hole for 6 months. Don’t have the savings? Predatory interest rates. Miss a payment because it’s that or miss rent and freeze to death? Now your interest rates are even higher. Why does poverty exist? Because our system makes it exist. Sure there are psychological reasons, and mental health reasons and addiction reasons, but I tell you what, digging out is hard. Super hard. If it were less hard to dig out, we’d have a hell of a lot less poverty.