If you aren’t from the US, I can guarantee poverty here is much much worse than you think
Just about every interstate exit in my area is a tent commune. And the thing is, cops will arrest or fine mutual aid groups for attempting to feed the homeless.
Everybody except the absolute richest 10% experience at minimum financial stress because neoliberalism has made everything require debt, which is inherently destabilizing and arguably traumatizing. Below that, you have people putting off medical care, severe mental health epidemics (everyone I know is on adderall, anti-depressants, or both), etc. all the way down to the worst squalor you will see anywhere in the world. It’s pretty fucking insane and illustrates how the Emperor is truly wearing no clothes.
