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The Real Cause of Poverty with Matthew Desmond

Factually! with Adam Conover

CHAPTER

The Fear of Losing It All

"I think it's not remarked upon often enough that folks in the upper middle class often who are, you know, people making a million dollars a year are often terrified," he says. "Our society is structured with such a vast bottom of precarity and poverty, it makes you afraid that you're going to fall into it." He adds: "A country where people look out for each other and help provide for each other ... would be a relief'

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