I am glad you were able to make it out alive! I agree, people that haven't been there don't know. The government has classified me under poverty level my entire life, I am now 28, but I am not poor. I am actually self employed, Steemit and BTC trading are a very small amount of my income. I make most of mine from blogging/internet and affiliate marketing via "regular" social media. But I am free now, and now I am happy. Like I said, I don't make much money but I make enough to pay for what my family needs and still have a little bit of money for vacations every 2 years or so. I didn't feel right when I had to work 40+ hours a week to make someone else rich. I could see where I was fitting in their big corporate machine and I didn't feel any purpose. And I believe that is part of it, people need to be able to FEEL THEIR PURPOSE. It sounds like Steemit helped you find yours. I don't care if you are rich or poor monetarily, if you don't feel purpose to the work you are doing, it will eat at you inside. Good luck to everything in the future. Make the Earth great again.