Killing is currency

"Have you ever wondered what would've happened if the Great Depression never ended? Like, if the whole country just stayed broke, hungry, and desperate forever?
No bounce-back. No recovery. Just a slow, starving crawl into madness.
Well, here's how it'd go down:

First? Population control.
People would look around and realize there's too many mouths and not enough scraps. The weak, the sick, the useless-they'd vanish. Quiet at first. Then not so quiet.
Next, they'd need caretakers, people to 'handle' the dying, the sick, the unwanted. That's where the first dirty jobs come from-nurses, grave diggers, body cleaners. All of them paid in scraps, favors, maybe meat. Then, like any good American tragedy, someone smells money.
Business starts booming.

Suddenly, there are storefronts selling 'mercy,' vendors offering 'clean deaths,' back alley surgeons trading limbs for rations. And then the government steps in-not to stop it. To organize it.
They call it structure. You call it survival.
And then comes the killing.
Murder becomes a service. Death becomes a transaction.
And the worst part?
People get used to it.

Welcome to a country where murder is currency and cannibalism is common sense.
The American Dream didn't die.
It just got hungry