"Sure, but I can't pay you for it, I don't even have a place to live."
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In America, every thing of any real value must have a price. Anything else is socialism. Or emulating Jesus. But don't tell that to Christian capitalists because they simply don't want to hear it.
Not only does Lew mean he doesn't have a house or apartment for his living arrangements, he also means he doesn't have a tether to this world. He's adrift with no resources and no way to repay any kindness to him. Isn't it interesting that here in America we automatically think that kindnesses need to somehow be "repaid." It's the whole idea behind "paying it forward." "Paying it forward" used to just be "acting charitably." "Paying it forward" is "acting charitably" with a capitalist twist.
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