Way to be dismissive of poverty. The whole point is for many folk you literally cannot afford it, it isn’t “your life is worth some debt” it is “you do not hav

Way to be dismissive of poverty. The whole point is for many folk you literally cannot afford it, it isn’t “your life is worth some debt” it is “you do not have money or credit that gives you an option”: * having a car costs money, so many poor people don’t have one * gas costs money, even people who do have one are often running on the minimum amount of gas, and literally cannot afford to fill the tank, let alone buy enough gas to get a meaningful distance, assuming the car is sufficiently reliable. * taxis, uber/lyft (even with limits on price gouging/“surge pricing”) cost even more money and during an evacuation if they’re even available * public transit for many folk is not an option (not available, under equipped, …) and often during evacuations is out of order because the transit operators are also trying to leave So they literally cannot afford to leave. You also have “can I afford to get fired”, as happened to those people who were killed due to their employer mandating they work until after the point of safe evacuation hit. With little to no employee protections a person who is on a week-to-week budget can become homeless if they’re fired, so the risk for “ignore evacuation warnings, you must come to work or you’re fired” is catastrophic. I get that many people, especially on mediums like HN think they know what poverty is like because - for example - they had little to “no” money when they were students, but that’s still an unbelievably far cry from actual poverty. For people in poverty claiming “you can afford it”, because of some “your life has value” nonsense completely disregards the whole concept of poverty. The literal point is that these are people who have nothing that can be used or converted into anything that can be used to escape. Don’t suggest “then go on foot” either, because again dismissive, but I’d also hope very obviously a bad plan for anyone.