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Not broke — the floor beneath broke, where options go to disappear.
means The state of lacking the basic resources — money, food, shelter — needed to survive.
from From Latin destituere, 'to forsake or abandon,' built from de- ('away') plus statuere ('to set, place'). Something destitute has literally been 'set apart from' or 'left standing without' support — the Romans used it for being deserted by allies, and the sense narrowed over time to being deserted by means.
- legal meaning
- lacking basic resources for survival, not just cash
- root word
- from latin destituere, to abandon or forsake
- measured how
- governments track it via shelter, food, income thresholds
- not poverty
- poverty bends budgets, destitution removes them entirely