8: Chapter 8 Checking in Supplies 8: Chapter 8 Checking in Supplies “You too.”
Allen Zhang smiled, “I’m going to get a relief al now because I heard from inside information that the Baal Relief al Truck will be on a certain street today.
Do you want to co with ?”
“Yeah.”
Simone gladly agreed and took out her toothbrush and cup, “Can you wait for for three minutes?”
“Of course.”
Allen Zhang readily agreed.
About three minutes later, Simone had finished washing up, put on her coat, a knit hat, and pushed her bike out to the main road with her backpack, showing that she was not a person who likes to dawdle.
Perhaps it was her innate boldness, she quickly cast aside the unpleasantness of earlier and asked curiously, “Allen, how did you find this place?”
“Dominic brought here; he’s my good friend.” Allen Zhang answered.
“Oh.” Simone relaxed quite a bit, “So you’re going to live here too?
Welco to Lori Louis 19!”
She extended her fist as a welcoming gesture.
“Thank you.” Allen Zhang also raised his hand and bumped fists with her.
“Were you out jogging to stay fit earlier?
Dominic usually gets up around noon; why didn’t you choose to sleep in a bit longer?” Simone asked again.
She had been here for so long, and it was really the first ti she saw a holess person with so much energy.
Most holess people seem to get by with neither full bellies nor starvation.
They only show the joy of freebies when collecting subsidies and shopping vouchers.
More often, they numbly push the small carts acquired through Zero-Dollar Purchase from supermarkets, wandering aimlessly in the streets with large and small bags.
More than the physical hardship, what tornts the holess more is the ntal devastation, the erosion of their bottom lines.
Over ti, many of their ntal states beco abnormal.
Allen Zhang smiled, “Maybe it’s because I just got here.
I’m used to sleeping and waking up early, and even changing environnts hasn’t altered that habit.
But you’re up early as well, Simone.
You were the only person I saw all along the way.
You are really a diligent girl.”
“Of course, because I have to go to work.”
Simone was pleased to hear soone praise her.
She said, “I found a modest day job on the street; I work in an Indian restaurant cleaning and delivering food.
Of course, sotis, I inevitably face sexual harassnt at work.”
“How did you find a job without having a house?” Allen Zhang was curious.
“It’s a bit complicated.
I stayed at a friend’s house for a while, asked them to help fill in my information, dealt with the community union’s spot checks and the inquiries from the recruiting company, making them believe I had a stable residence, thus I got the part-ti job,” explained Simone.
“But the community conducts unannounced spot checks from ti to ti; I can’t always bother my friends, so I found a rental company on the street, asked them to rent a ‘nonexistent house’, providing just a rental certificate but the house is actually uninhabitable.
I only have to pay a small amount of rent weekly, they helped take care of it, it’s also a solution.”
Nonexistent houses are mostly those that have collapsed due to disrepair or unfinished buildings that are being reconstructed, like motels, but their docunts are not yet expired.
You can say it is legal, but it can also be considered illegal.
Mainly promoting cheap rent, a building could have several hundred people registered; it’s more like running a business of selling qualifications rather than a rental business.
As long as the address could be verified online, one can find a job.
The sa advantage is that you only need to check out at the speed of light on the day you receive the subsidy, becoming holess again, and then you can reapply for subsidy and shopping vouchers as a holess person.
Simone spread her hands, “But occasionally, there are unexpected issues.
The emails from the workplace always get lost, or even thrown away as trash by the rental staff.
My initial few jobs all vanished because of this, and I even nearly got blacklisted as a defaulter of trust, unable to find any more jobs.”
Is this what they call policy loopholes?
Allen Zhang was sowhat astonished.
You really have to be a local Qi Person.
“Since you had a stable job, you shouldn’t have to roam the streets, right?”
Allen Zhang inquired.
“I have to ntion my ex!
My life was about to get back on track, but because he didn’t want to break up, he caused trouble at my workplace, resulting in losing my job and being listed as a temporary defaulter of trust.
I absolutely loathe him!”
Simone was irritated.
“I currently work at an Indian restaurant that’s also not very formal, and the wage is pretty low, only $15.20 per hour.
Just twenty cents more than the minimum wage set by California’s law!”
Simone said helplessly, “Honestly, you have no idea how these Indian guys leer at with such hunger, always finding excuses to take advantage of , it’s disgusting.
Sotis, I think about smashing the plate right on his face when he stares at my butt and walking out slamming the door!”
“If I were you, I’d definitely punch them in the face, stop them from doing those disgusting things,” Allen Zhang said seriously.
“I really want to do that!
But compared to being taken advantage of, I still prefer money more.”
Simone shrugged helplessly, spreading her hands, “I need money, that’s life, bro, welco to the West Coast, welco to Los Santos!
Everyone here loves to smoke.”
“I get what you an.”
Allen Zhang laughed, “yo!
west coast we selling music and coco.”
“Wo～”
Simone laughed, her speech was just like an old West Coaster.
After all, gangster rap is inseparable from music and coco, it affird his musical achievent.
The two chatted and walked, quickly becoming more familiar with each other.
He also officially beca Allen Zhang’s third friend on the West Coast.
Interacting with people is really quite simple!
Apart from so street trash and extremists, there aren’t that many racists at all.
If you have enough confidence, you’re easily liked by others.
Of course, that’s if both parties are at the sa social status and class, and the topic is sothing both can talk about.
You as a holess person can’t go arm in arm with the governor of California, can you?
…
A few minutes later.
They arrived at the relief food truck, managing to catch the first batch.
Allen Zhang lined up and got two als from the relief food truck.
Double cheeseburgers, Pepsi, and cream ice cream cake.
Damn, this al is better than what I’ve had before.
And what’s more, it’s all for free.
You know, sotis the basic welfare for holess here is really good.
This little cake must sell for at least a dozen US dollars?
And it’s topped with strawberries, with each bite full of industrial whipped cream.
Unlike back ho where they implent the policy of ‘better to teach fishing than to give fish,’ here as long as you are willing to work, you can live a decent life like a normal person.
Arica, on the other hand, cannot curb the ergence of holess people; they need the holess to exist, too lazy to provide job opportunities, choosing the ‘provide basic needs’ route, it’s better to dredge rather than block.
Sotis, they are so poor they only have national debt and money left.
During the election periods that require voting, just a cheap subsidy of $600-1000 per person per month can win over the hearts of the holess firmly.
Eat your al without breaking your pot, and firmly cast your vote for them!
Under the ‘kick out’ policy, if you’re broke, you have to be holess.
Streets are filled with single mothers with two or three children, holess because they can’t afford the rent.
Often, the more developed the city, the more holess people there are because the welfare benefits are indeed in place.
Many holess from other states travel long distances just for a relief al, only to find themselves trapped and unable to leave the poor streets.
Anyway, it is capital that is paying, not the senators, major corporations just need to leak a bit for tax purposes, which is enough to support millions of holess, and there are still people embezzling.
When it’s ti to vote, the holess are still people; if you’re of no use, just go die sowhere.
Who cares about you.
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