as small as a world and as large as alone

4:01pm May 29, 2014

lichgem:

The most effective way to promote employment, I feel, would be to start giving people the basics they need for survival. Because it’s incredibly hard to get a job and keep a job when you’re hungry, cold, sick, exhausted, and drowning in despair.

Yes this.

Also most people want to work, if they can.

Work is something people like to do.

I would work, if I could.  In the absence of the ability to do enough work to pay me a living wage, I do other kinds of work that either don’t pay, or don’t pay much.  Not because I have to, but because I can, and I want to.  Most disabled people I know are in the same boat.

And it’s impossible to do damn near anything if you’re drowning.  You’re too busy trying to keep your head above water.

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