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Unpopular opinion: Poverty is a fate worse than death

Not having food on the table, having to sleep without heat, having to give up on essential things because you aren't a billionaire, having to work in a very humiliating job where you take abuse by the public 8 hours a day 5 days a week, getting kicked out to the streets at the risk of getting raped or trafficked and accumulating more irrecoverable trauma which leads to permanent mental disability – all of this is worse than death. Death, in this case, is freedom from all the crimes committed against you, from all the pain and suffering and unlivability of life. For some people it doesn't get better and they need to rest forever.


Not having food on the table, having to sleep without heat, having to give up on essential things because you aren't a billionaire, having to work in a very humiliating job where you take abuse by the public 8 hours a day 5 days a week, getting kicked out to the streets at the risk of getting raped or trafficked and accumulating more irrecoverable trauma which leads to permanent mental disability – all of this is worse than death. Death, in this case, is freedom from all the crimes committed against you, from all the pain and suffering and unlivability of life. For some people it doesn't get better and they need to rest forever.

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