"why are you triggered? all i said was me amo los Estados Unidos, do you disagree? why do you hate America?"

someone get me in touch with Newsom's PR team let me cook

That's almost axiomatically the definition of poverty, even. What did people think "robbing Peter to pay Paul" meant? Vibes, essays?

Usually not actual robbery, to be clear! But when you simply don't have enough resources, *something* is going to feel the pinch.

Poverty forces you into compromises that money protects you from having to make. Sometimes moral compromises! This has always been understood by people who think about it seriously or know it firsthand. There's nothing noble or ennobling about it.