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What's the alternative though? Sure, that's scary, but I don't know what you can do. There's this huge gap of shit between being very poor and having a lot of money. I've thought about it a lot and I don't see a smart alternative to working only so much that you stay within the medicaid limits, living in rural, subsidized low income housing to avoid the higher crime rates of urban low income housing, and trying to use as many government benefits as you can like food stamps, etc, to offset the low income.

What would happen if I got a job that put me over like 25k a year? I'd lose my insurance, it would get replaced with some shitty obamacare plan that I have to pay a ton for and have a huge deductible, I'd lose food stamps, I'd lose subsidized housing, I'd lose so much shit, and what would I get? A few thousands dollars and the difficulty level of my life would have ramped up so much. If you can't make a lot of money then it's dangerous to fall anywhere in between.