We Can Go to the Moon, But People Still Don’t Have Clean Water
Necessities Aren’t a Luxury
Making sure every single person has access to housing, healthcare, food, and clean drinking water should not be a radical idea. The belief that meeting basic needs will make people lazy and unmotivated is not just wrong, it’s cruel.
Right now, we’ve created a society where people are working 60+ hours a week and still barely scraping by. No one has the energy to write, paint, make music, or be creative. Those are the things that enrich a society. Instead, people are stuck in the cycle: wake up, work, eat, sleep, repeat. And for what? Just to keep themselves afloat. That’s not healthy for anyone.
No one should have to worry that missing a single day of work means they can’t afford to feed themselves. The fact that some communities in the U.S. still don’t have clean drinking water is unacceptable. The fact that people who survived natural disasters years ago are still waiting for funding to rebuild is unacceptable. And years after Hurricane Maria, many Puerto Ricans are still living in temporary housing, without reliable water or electricity, waiting for aid that has been slow or mismanaged. This is not okay.
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