Post Eight: Sci-Fi What if...

What if poverty rates increased by a huge amount? What if it got so extreme there was no such thing as a middle class? What if there was no such thing as classes? What would happen to our society?

There is now a huge gap between the rich and the poor. This much poverty causes a lot of default on society. Every society that has ever been created is now collapsing. People everywhere hate their living environments and their lives in general. Schools continue to shut down and students now have to live in poverty. Children have no education, and parents have no jobs to support them. Everyone has become depressed and sad about everything. This increase has not led to happy lives, it has made people want to die.

The poverty surroundings does not look pretty. The streets are filthy, covered with dirt and garbage that no one can escape. Every house seems to be abandoned. People are now turning to the dirty streets and have no place to call home. Society is just a dark and scary place to be a part of.

            


The conflict between the rich and the poor has escalated. Since the huge gap between the classes, the people in poverty are furious with the rich people that still exist in society. The working class is most of the population and it is a constant fight for money. This kind of frustration could lead to things like war and violence. It continuously keep causing destruction for society.

Moving to the streets, drinking from the water on the streets, digging through the trash on the streets, Deen used to have a life full of possibilities, but now it has full of disasters. Deen is a person struggling with poverty. His family used to be considered a person in the middle class, until society came to a halt. Deen is only 15 years old who was in school, until all schools in his area had to be shut down. Now he can't have any education or achieve a good job to support his mother. His mother is getting older in age and has been struggling with a sickness. She's been drinking a lot of contaminated water and hasn't been getting the nourishment she needs. Those things didn't used to bother her, but her body is becoming fragile. Deen knows that he could help her, if they had proper health care. For now, he watches as she continually gets weaker. He's constantly thinking of how there is medicine that can fix her.The medicine that he can't afford would make her healthy again. Deen would have been able to bring his mom to the hospital years ago, but now there is no money. He hates society and is angry at everyone in it. Deen feels like he has no purpose in this world anymore. Society has stopped him from living his life. He knows the only thing that he can do is attempt to make change. The thing that frustrates him the most is the fact that there are still people who are rich. He's mad at them for not helping people in poverty like him. It's just selfish money going to waste. Deen didn't used to be an angry person, but now all he feels inside is anger rushing through him. With this much poverty increase, there is no hope for Deen, his mother, or any other family struggling with poverty.