I definitely recommend taking some time to read it and letting me know what you think. I was really moved by a lot of the stories here and also just felt a lot of empathy for what many of these people are dealing with
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:27
Thank you for adding this. I actually had never heard that term before, and so I just did the precariat. I mean, and I just did a little search and saw that a book came out about it in 2011 actually, and super interesting and also obviously disturbing, just seeing how many different cultures and places in the world are affected by so many issues around work and class, inequality and opportunity and just having any kind of security
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
The point of welfare is really just to get you anything to get you off the government dime. So when we had this basic income pilot in Ontario under the previous government, provincial government, people were getting more money than they normally get on welfare. That's one of the biggest pluses of it. But Besides that, they were allowed to keep a significant portion of the money even if they worked. And that was a big difference
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:39
So yeah, that raises so many questions for me around what people do, who are dealing with any sort of ongoing illnesses or issues that require expensive medications, because here in the States, I Unfortunately, know a lot of people who have become just greatly indebted or even had to file bankruptcy purely because they cannot keep up with health care costs. And in my view, it's just completely inhumane. And we need a better system. There was this conversation a little while ago about universal basic income