Being Poor

John Scalzi’s angry reaction to TV commentators’ astonishment at people not evacuating New Orleans led him to write Being Poor - a heartfelt explanation in the form of a series of examples. And then the commenters came and added their experiences, on and on and on in heartbreaking detail.
John reflects on it all:

Overall, writing the "Being Poor" piece and seeing the response has been one of the moving writing experiences that I've had in a very long time, and much of that I owe to the commentors who stepped forward to add notes from their own lives and experiences.

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