Income does not exist in Hell because there are no jobs and there is no investment. There is, however, work and there is debt. A lot of it.
Bills also exist in Hell and no matter how often you pay them, they are due.
“I paid that yesterday!” Harcourt argued.
“It’s due again. Pay up, deadbeat!”
You can never catch up. And you can never elude the anxieties of debt. People who had been responsible and debt-free through their entire lives, in Hell found themselves in debt to their eyeballs.
The anxiety was worst for them. Some would even try to kill themselves, so anxious were they, but they always failed because they were already dead. They were in Hell, after all.
Even had they been successful in killing themselves, it would not have helped them to evade hellish debt. They would have died and gone to Hell, where they already were, because suicide is a very bad thing. It’s the sort of bad thing that is a one-way ticket to Hell.
Hell is all about redundancy. And debt.
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