Fight Poverty Like Your Life Depends on It

That sounds dramatic. But think about it:

If anyone falls into poverty, we all pay the price.

There are always costs. The proactive kind—support, stability, dignity—are cheaper. But if we don’t cover those, we get the expensive kind: emergency rooms, crime, despair, instability.

And you might fall into poverty, too.

So what do you do? You build a buffer. Bigger than you’ll probably ever need. Just in case. Or you live with a quiet fear that you haven’t built enough.

You worry for your kids. The world is changing fast, and it’s not clear how they’ll keep up. College used to be the answer—until the robots learned those jobs. Now it’s trades. But how long will those hold?

So you try to build an even bigger buffer.

And through it all, you pass the same homeless person on the same bench every day. You care. But what can you do? A band-aid? It might help for a day. But you’ve got enough to carry already. You can't pull another person into your fold.

But maybe that’s the problem.

It’s not your job.
It’s our job