I think you’re confusing luxuries with luxury and I think you’re missing how much you take for granted. If you don’t work to earn money in some form or fashion then you are working to survive and it’s a lot of work to survive because a simple mistake means death.
extremely expensive healthcare, business more important than public health
health insurance tied to employment, less worker protections
sprawl and car-dependent living, a sea of oversized trucks
So yeah… one medical issue can add massive debt, and avoiding care or bleeding out in a non-ambulance on the way to a hospital are possibilities. Or a teacher or nurse living in their car being hit by a drunk driver. Lots of other ways to get onto a downward spiral to some death of despair.
I think you’re confusing luxuries with luxury and I think you’re missing how much you take for granted. If you don’t work to earn money in some form or fashion then you are working to survive and it’s a lot of work to survive because a simple mistake means death.
This is also true in the US with someone already living paycheck-to-paycheck (and the mistake doesn’t have to be their own).
That’s why they use guns to fire people over there! /s
We have:
So yeah… one medical issue can add massive debt, and avoiding care or bleeding out in a non-ambulance on the way to a hospital are possibilities. Or a teacher or nurse living in their car being hit by a drunk driver. Lots of other ways to get onto a downward spiral to some death of despair.
That doesn’t mean you’ll just die though. I mean I feel for you all over there, but all alone on the savannah is probably worse.
Some of the things I mentioned you just might. Hypothermia or heat stroke if you’re homeless in the wrong place during winter/summer.
Slow death is also worse if you ask me. “It could be prevented” yeah sure, doesn’t mean it will.
well, I may ask myself