Survival of the Fittest

Most people won’t experience homelessness or poverty on this level. If I ever make it out and come up I want to actually help homeless with get into homes. It’s a sad world that we live in. Everything is for profit. Every man is for themselves.

Being homeless humbled me. I had the vision of becoming a lawyer with no interruptions while becoming a lawyer —and being well off. Because I grew up poor. I had time to step back, sit down, think, see the big picture, and put things in perspective. I understand the world and how it works.

Companies hire poor people and keep them poor. Imagine starting a job and never getting a raise or a 1% — 3% raise every year. I’m 2015/ 2016 when I lived in Charlotte before getting evicted, my rent went up every year. The apartment I got while in law school July 2013. It was nice I liked it. In fact I couldn’t get any apartment initially when I moved to Charlotte. I had to live in JCSU student housing, which was not the right environment for a law student.

Nonetheless after fixing things on my credit, I was able to get a real apartment. Each year the rent increased. I asked the manager why the rent continued to increase each year if the property itself has stayed the same. I could hear anybody who lived above me pee, have sex, flush the toilet, and walk. The walking was so bad that it shooked the lights and I couldn’t sleep. She stated,

You get a raise from your job every year.

The job I had at the time never gave me a raise. I was at the same rate of pay year after year. I think that companies justify their prices with assumptions. We live in a cold ugly world. Companies provide jobs for the poor. However, the companies do not adequately pay them. The wages keep them in poverty. The money poor people earn is returned to the same corporations.