In this chapter I discuss how one can lose a sense of being able to access the public world of politics from the world one inhabits in their daily life. I develop a conception of the public realm as an intersubjective world, a political field which is constituted by sedimentation of human interaction into webs of human relationships and accessible social meanings which can subtend a practical sense of freedom. I contend that one aspect of political poverty is the damaging of the human embodied capability to experience oneself able to access a shared civil realm or a public world. I conceptualize this loss of access by making use of Iris Marion Young’s conception of a “double spatiality” of here and yonder, as the split of the world into a realm one actually moves in and a realm one can perceive, but only from the outside looking in. I discuss how such a split can be the result of a loss of social institutions which allow one to learn a civic way of being in the world through bodily mimesis. In contemporary societies the world of work and employment is one such institution. I discuss how for this reason unemployment is often accompanied by political apathy and passivity.