Recently I suffered a mental health crisis and dropped out of college. My parents gave me a choice: go back to school after 90 days, or go into an internship program. So I decided I would choose the internship program my sister chose because my mom and sister were very positive about it—the Disney College Program in Florida.
After signing up for the program my mom asked me what I thought. I said, “Well frankly I'm a little insulted that they are only going to pay me $14 an hour and then have the audacity to charge me rent, and give no paid time off.” My mother's response was really shocking she basically said, well it's an entry-level job I don't know what you expect.
I expect them to freaking pay me a livable wage, I am literally flying halfway across the country to work for you, and you pay less than my terrible job at Home Depot, in a more expensive state, and they don't even have the courtesy to pretend they are giving me a good deal by housing me.
So we go back and forth and eventually I get really heated and say that it is not right that Billionaires are making record profits and there are millions of people working low-paying no benefit jobs. There should not be millions of people going homeless, and millions more worrying that they will be put into that position. Eventually, my mom says the equivalent of most homeless and poor people are just lazy and drug addicts, all of them are just buying new iPhones every time a new one comes out, or taking out loans for expensive cars they can't afford.
Even if that were the case (which it is not) why do they deserve to be treated less than humans with little to no government assistance? Mom's response was that's just how the world works and it's better than the alternative.
No there is a better world. I refuse to believe that life could not be better for millions of people.