26 august 2023
*Everyone should try sitting in a public place with a cardboard sign sometime. Take a marker, write down some reasonable demands relevant to your area, and quietly sit. It's been years since I've done that and wonder how it would go now.
There is a connection between this and the gig worker I saw having a breakdown in their car that seemed to also be in shambles. As I scoot closer to the event horizon of the poverty black hole I wonder how many people are crying in vehicles don't have just enough wear and tear left in them to see them through another orbit.
We'll work together now while it's merely uncomfortable, or we'll work together later when it's life and death. Weird that this is where my mind goes when I finally get brief respite.
*unless it's physically unsafe for you.