Friday, June 20, 2025

Buying Off Death

Money can't buy happiness, it can maybe prevent suicide,
Get your monthly dose refilled, and any crisis for the month you can tide.
I'm not talking about antidepressants, though they have an important role to play,
I'm referring to Universal Basic Income, where you get sustenance come what may.
 
Conditions attached to the cash transfer, like you send your child to school,
Ensure the conditions of your life, become progressively better and cool.
Money enables a better lifestyle, physical health leads to mental peace,
When crises are few and far between, death by suicide starts to cease.  
 
More daily wagers die by suicide, than students or working professionals,
Most struggle to make their ends meet, the desire to live - poverty annuls.  
A timely infusion of cash, is like a sanjeevini for them,
If its predictable and assured, they won't die, but live some.  
 
Money can't buy happiness, it surely prevents suicide,
You've tried therapy and medication, have you alleviating poverty tried? 

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