After a while, once you divorce yourself from the "rat race", when you actually begin to center you, loved ones and friends, it becomes a bit clear how much of it exists mainly to keep people feeling "okay". That what they experience is not only normal but expected. It's normal to be in debt to faceless companies that can prevent you from securing a place to sleep, a means to eat or expand your knowledge. And the countless people who like to nudge people towards failing social programs can, at times, fall into the buckets of the "couldnt-be-me"s/"that's-a-personal-failing" to "we need to have SOME poor people so WE can be rich so it's fine" committee.

I feel bad for the next set of people who try me on this idea because they best had been reading.