There is nothing special about your destitution
Poor Americans treat poverty as if it is some great trial that they and they alone can understand. The truth is that most of this world’s population is destitute. There is nothing particularly shameful or unnaturally horrible about being in need. Life is not a meritocracy, in the sense that the willingness to work hard alone is not a guarantee of a living wage. Never was, never will be.
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