DEATH OF REALITY

bogleech:

provendermalkin:

• being charged thousands (or sometimes even millions) of dollars for non-optional (life saving) medical procedures, then sued into oblivion because you wouldn’t be able to pay the bill even if you paid every cent you made (and I mean EVERY cent) for years to come
  
• children dying of cancer because their parents can’t afford treatment for them
• children dying of TREATABLE diseases because their parents can’t afford treatment for them
  
• (those same parents only being able to afford treatment because many other working class people pooled what little they had in an act of altruism that wouldn’t be necessary in a just or equitable society)

• being called a freeloading leech because you were born disabled and can’t live without help, or because you worked as hard as you could for as long as you could to make something of yourself, but ended up disabled
• society actively searching for reasons that you’re to blame for lifelong chronic pain or disability in an effort to justify treating you like trash, even if the theoretically avoidable circumstances that led to said disability were not avoidable for you because of your pre-existing inability to afford treatment/ eat or live better/ etc.

• being born into poverty and automatically segregated via highly corrupt zoning laws into the worst schools with the least resources and the highest rates of prejudice and abuse
• being unable to escape highly impoverished areas for greener/safer pastures because the cost of moving is unaffordably high
• homelessness being classified as a punishable crime throughout much of the united states
• assisting homeless people by providing them with food or basic necessities also being a punishable crime
  
• being the descendant of black americans still struggling with poverty because their ancestors have only had basic civil rights for ~50 years and still make less than whites even in identical jobs with identical accomplishments, who before that were actively required by law to live in worse neighborhoods, go to worse schools, have worse jobs and make less money, and before that were only allowed to perform the same jobs they would have had as slaves, and before that to be slaves
• being a non-white american whose experiences and difficulties are discounted because literally any single member of your race (or a similar-looking race from a white POV) has ever accomplished anything, ever

• wealthiness and accomplishment automatically being assumed the result of hard work, while poverty and failure are automatically assumed to be laziness and worthlessness
• having unearned wealthiness and accomplishment dismissed as anecdotal, but “earned” poverty or failure held up as the absolute majority of all cases

• an unrealistic and inhumane poverty line that says if you make more than about 12,000 dollars a year– that’s a thousand dollars a month– you aren’t poor, with the amount you’re allowed to make falling dramatically per each adult in the household, until eight adults with two children can only make 43,000 dollars a year total, or 597 dollars a month per adult if you assume the two children are included in the eight person total.
  
• being told that poverty is a choice and that if you were worth anything you wouldn’t be working minimum wage despite the fact that millions of qualified professionals work for min. wage including government employees providing essential services for society that benefit everyone
  
• having the highest effective tax rates and penalties levied against the people with the least to their names

• being expected to work with no vacations, no paid days off, no sick leave, no paid maternity leave and (more than likely) no retirement
• knowing that if you aren’t a salaried or full-time hourly employee of a large company, you may have to miss the birth of any children in your family and funerals or hospitalization of loved ones because if you take time off you may be laid off or fired for “poor work attendance” and that even if you are protected by federal law, you can’t take more than a short time for fear of ending up unemployed
  

• knowing that even extremely humble dreams are out of reach, and settling for cheaper one-time-purchase luxuries to numb the disappointment– luxuries intentionally priced within the means of the poor for exactly that reason, not out of charity but to make keep the sorrow and frustration of the lower class within controllable limits
  

I’d like to add the fact that there are Americans who commit crimes with the intention of going to prison because the showers, meals, beds and medical care they subsequently get are still preferable to making it in all the above shit.

miaalyse96:

dogpetter420:

handsssalloverr:

dogpetter420:

There’s water to the left of y'all
Like
Go get it.
It’s always been there.

you know how hard it is to take saltwater and make it drinkable? Not that simple

Why ont you start with removing the salt from ya attitude