Living the Low-Wage Life- Anthony Mejia

For my hypertext I will be focusing on the influence of drugs and how they affect the low wage life either by consuming or selling them to others during the struggle of money. People living in the low wage life are always faced with decisions to make, as said in The Working Poor by Shipler, “..every day and every night when I’m trying to fall asleep, there’s this worry hanging.”(Shipler, 25) People at times can not find a way out of what they are living in, having to owe money to companies and money to other people they are trapped in a corner waiting for something to help them get out. This is when drugs come into the mix of low wage people and their new way to just get out of their problems. People begin to use drugs as a getaway in order to escape reality and just be in a place of no worry. As drugs begin to be used, the new addiction transforms everything in peoples mind, they begin to not care and are just hooked on the drugs. They may begin to notice those people selling drugs and how money begins to transform their life’s of being a drug dealer. The low wage life begins to come in affect when there is no more money, people go find a different way to make money which at times may not be legal. Selling drugs on the side begins to help out with some bills and payments and soon becomes better than doing a job for a certain amount of hours. Drugs affect the minds of people and in my hypertext I want to show how they are influenced and why these people go to such measures to make money to survive.