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Hold on. What I'm talking about is someone putting a gun to another person's head and taking that person's can of soup to scarf it down in the bombed out ruins of a building[1]. I'm not talking about anything else. That people are facing hardship is not a surprise to me, but we're not quite at The Road yet.

As someone supporting a household with a cumulative 200k of debt, I know what the possibility of a chaotic new future feels like, believe me (and I AM privileged!) I'm specifically talking about the fantasy of blowing away armed marauders with a shotgun. We're on the edge, a job loss would be brutal to us, and I recognize that many have it even worse. I guess I'm pushing back against grim (and I believe largely baseless) cynicism about human nature.

[1]Mind you, I'm talking about the United States. Yemen, Libya, Syria, many other countries graced with the interference of the US and our allies are another subject.

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