DH Branski
Aug 27, 2017 · 1 min read

We’re already overwhelmed, often by discussions about “what no one is talking about.” We could get down to basics. What matters the most to people, at the proverbial end of the day, is survival — the means to keep their families together, housed and fed. Poverty today, in a country that has no mercy on the poor, is a scary issue, so we mostly avoid it. We need to believe that the economy is reasonably functional, and if we just try hard enough, everything will be OK. Few things are as terrifying as having the floor ripped out from under us, so we convince ourselves that it could never happen to us, personally. Only happens to bad/lazy people.

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