The point is that staying out of jail is much easier with money. The daunting complexity of the demands we have to comply with, and the opportunities for diversion that abound, add up to a pretty compelling case for just staying on the couch in a state of overstimulated avoidance. If you have ever sat in a municipal court waiting your turn to go before the judge, listening to other people’s woes, you know that “failure to appear” is the most common rap, and people are led off in handcuffs for this every day, the last step in a concatenation of fuckups that may have begun with their failure to
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