Your essay is on point — and you just did a tour. Imagine working for Amazon. Imagine going to law school for a Juris Doctor and undergraduate for a bachelors degree — and despite your efforts you end up in the same spot as people who didn’t attend college, people with mental illness, and ex-cons. I believe there are no rewards for doing the right thing. So why do the right thing!? I have worked at Amazon three times. Two different locations in North Carolina. Most recently I worked at Amazon in West Columbia, SC. I wrote about it on here. https://link.medium.com/MqkhrDPyq2 I had a prime trial. I am going to cancel it. I just don’t like Amazon anymore. I will not be buying anything from Amazon — I’m broke. But if I had the money, I still wouldn’t. It’s not essential to me that I get a package in a day. I used to buy books for class and sell books back in the day. Now selling something on there is too complicated. You assumed that people aren’t scraping by if reading your article because it’s behind a paywall. I’m scraping by. I have been homeless since 10/2018. I’ve been homeless off and on ever since graduating from law school December 2015. I’m laying on my backseat as I type this curled up under a throw blanket. It doesn’t keep me adequately warm at night. However, I shouldn’t be scraping by according to my education. I went to college because I thought I’d get a good job. I was wrong. I grew up poor. I remember getting evicted as a child. I remember no heat in the winter, no food, no car, no money, my parents arguing about money, my father coming home drunk and yelling at everybody. I remember my mother not trying to give us a better life because she wasn’t standing at no bus stops to go anywhere. I just remember hard times. And for people like me college isn’t the answer. College is a business that preys on the poor just like Amazon. College merely sells hope. On my first day at Amazon in West Columbia my feet were swollen and very painful to walk. I started on October 16, 2019. I was fired December 7, 2019. I worked approximately 8 weeks. I was fired due to too many points. The pain was unbearable and I was exhausted. We worked 60 hours a week with 1 day off. So I was late some days. Now I don’t have any income. Being homeless is depressing. It makes keeping a job challenging. Working at Amazon made me more depressed even though I needed the money, trying to get back on my feet, and get somewhere to live. The job is painful. I couldn’t even bend over anymore to pick up totes and items that fell off the shelf. Standing up for 10+ hours is extremely difficult. A lot of the people have no options and Amazon is as good as it’s going to get! I have my education I just need an opportunity and money for the Bar Exam. I was trying to save up for the Bar Exam in February, but I missed the deadline December 15th. I’ve missed it for 5 years now .. . One day I will take it.. . Goodnight!