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Well what do you have to lose?
The trick is that so much is tied to our employment, including health care. Wanna start a ruckus and get fired? Cool, you'll lose your health insurance and the cancer will kill you. It's not like the company down the street is any better.
And sometimes the company you work for, or the company down the street, is causing the cancer.
Or your out trying to protect your neighbors, and ICE or DHS shoots cancerous chemicals into the streets.
This is America.
Everything. Everything we have.
Let me tell you what it's like to be poor, since it seems you don't understand. The less money and agency you have, the more every little thing counts.
Our families, our pets, our few nice things... They are everything, and they can be taken from us if we slip up just once.