I HATE POVERTY! DO YOU HATE POVERTY?

27 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A first-person monologue (YouTube video) in which the speaker describes intense frustration with poverty and financial instability, recounting personal experiences—working hard but still unable to make ends meet, bills unpaid, and a pregnant partner facing utility disconnection—and expressing a strong motivation to escape that life. The piece is motivational and autobiographical in tone.

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I hate being broke more than I hate you thinking that. And until you hate, like, being broke and not. And having to rob Peter to pay Paul. Until there's a knock on the door one day and it's Peter and Paul, and they're both there standing with their hands out, talking about, I want my money today. Right? If you're tired of living like that. I got tired of living like that. I got tired of living a life where I made this beautiful woman all these great promises, and now here she is, eight months pregnant with our first child. And our electricity or water, both disconnected. Not because I wasn't willing to work hard. I was working hard, but what I was working on wasn't working for me. It was working on me, but it wasn't working for me.