A person in poverty doesn’t just have “less stuff,” but also lives at the precarious command of the wealthy.
Most people in the US are aware, on some level, that in some financial market thousands of miles away from them, some anonymous finance bro might casually make a gamble that cripples entire sectors of the economy and potentially costs them their job, their income, their heath care, their ability to feed their family, their home, their community, and their status as a dignified member of that community.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/01/detroit-michigan-economy-recession-unemployment
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