It’s wild how many political debates are just financially comfortable people who’ve never given much thought to what it’s like to be poor shouting over poor people who are trying to tell them about it.
If you’ve never tried making it work getting paid minimum wage you really can’t imagine the stress. If you’ve never skipped meals because you had to you don’t know what that feels like. If you’ve never worked a minimum wage job you can’t imagine the physical exhaustion.
You’re literally in survival mode all the time. If you’ve been middle class your whole life it’s an epistemological blank.
And you know how much shit costs, that’s for damn sure.
And I’m saying this only having lived like that for relatively short periods of time before myself (the food insecurity bit at least).
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