Strapped Is A Book For The American Working Class
This book isn’t for everyone, it’s for the scrappy and the struggling who didn’t get served life on a silver platter
Imagine you live on a tiny island and due to some natural disaster, safe drinking water is scarce. Most people on the island are thirsty all the time. But one man has tens of thousands of cases of water stockpiled.
Not bottles. Cases. More water than he can drink in a lifetime, more than his children can drink in a lifetime. He doesn’t care if people die of thirst. Now replace water with money and that’s the world we live in. I read that little story on page eighty-one of Strapped, by Michelle Teheux.
Also? According to Oxfam, half of all new wealth created in the last ten years went straight to the world’s wealthiest. That’s on page three. So that man with all the water stockpiled up? He gets half of all the new water that becomes available on the island. Everyone else fights for the other half.
Funny thing is, we humans don’t really like people who hoard stuff to the detriment of the rest of us. Like during the onset of Covid, when some people hoarded hand sanitizer and thought they were going to sell it to the rest of us who were so desperate to get some. We vilified them for their greed…
