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Just a blurb from my notepad

Freedom means the chance to survive and thrive, not be threatened to work or starve. Many unhoused peoples feel disenfranchised from mainstream society, and one thing we will notice is that people who are chronically homeless do not respond well to threats. The threat of having to work in order to survive leads many to apathy and rather to disengage from society than embrace it. This is also an isolating force, leading to further mental health issues that are amplified by the trauma of unhoused life in general. Homelessness is sometimes an extreme form of rejection to the threat of work; the need to reject the threat can also be present in people who are unemployed or have unstable living conditions as well. With something like 2/3 workers feeling disengaged from their job, this feeling certainly exists in most. The knowledge of the threat may be conscious or unconscious, but…


Freedom means the chance to survive and thrive, not be threatened to work or starve. Many unhoused peoples feel disenfranchised from mainstream society, and one thing we will notice is that people who are chronically homeless do not respond well to threats. The threat of having to work in order to survive leads many to apathy and rather to disengage from society than embrace it. This is also an isolating force, leading to further mental health issues that are amplified by the trauma of unhoused life in general.

Homelessness is sometimes an extreme form of rejection to the threat of work; the need to reject the threat can also be present in people who are unemployed or have unstable living conditions as well. With something like 2/3 workers feeling disengaged from their job, this feeling certainly exists in most. The knowledge of the threat may be conscious or unconscious, but it exists and manifests in many forms throughout all who live under a capitalist structure.

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