The 4 modern castes, from bottom to top The uninsured stricken People on Plan B-Z People on Plan A People who don’t need plans
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In case the analogy isn’t clear, I’m not saying safety nets have failed like nuclear reactors. I’m saying each fallen *individual* is like a nuclear reactor in meltdown. Under modernity, humans are like nuclear reactors. Chimpanzees are more like say bicycle grade complexity.
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Given how many things have to go right for a “normal” life to work, it’s astounding the homeless/faceless/uninsured-stricken population is so low (~0.2%, 17/10,000)pic.twitter.com/NSmQtajT9C
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Those of us who are keeping it together are working far harder than we realize. Hence chronic stress as an endemic condition. Just below conscious awareness, you’re probably fighting the specter of meltdown (
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You’re likely running your own Truman doctrine of containment of the four horsemen of the apocalypse: unemployment, uninsured events, acute illness, social abandonment. “Security” and “precarity” are words that mask entire universes.
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Yep https://twitter.com/amurshak/status/1221982059742289920?s=21 … https://twitter.com/amurshak/status/1221982059742289920 …
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If you are interested in really testing this theory, look into homelessness in other societies. USSR had a fair bit of homelessness. It's unclear to me if places that appear not to have it as obviously visible have more "candidates" locked up (prison or mental hospital).
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This page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_population … (sort by Homeless Ratio) is an interesting corrective to various claims. Homelessness appears to be especially visible in the US <large cities>, but not especially common. Drugs? or the legal environment? may be behind that higher visibility.
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