It really is as simple as that.

You can't keep a roof over your head without money. You can't eat without money. You can't see a doctor without money. Even if you do manage to stay alive, you will sleep in filth, eat from garbage cans, and suffer in silence from curable conditions.

Sorry if that's depressing, but that's the way it is.

The good news is that it's not hard to make enough money to keep oneself alive. It's probably not hard to make a lot more than that if you really put your mind to it.

Special super-secret message to the 136 people reading this post: If you make money, you are lucky. Any dumb hippy guru monk who tells you not to sell out is full of shit. If you can make cash, take cash.

A steady paycheck would do, but I'd take any kind of honest scratch right now.