Middle-Class Welfare
I work at a Trust and by supporting a range of local nonprofits, we are a big part of serving the poor, the disenfranchised, the homeless, the powerless the starving, as well as the environment, local economies and and so on. We facilitate everything that a range of diverse nonprofits serve. Philanthropy has its flaws, but by and large it's good to
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First, thanks so much for your comments and thoughts. On your "cash crash", agrathea had a similar festive season, though fortunately she had a bit of a buffer built up. What the two of you do is hard and susceptible to the current panicked "don't spend" cycle in which the country is spiraling out of control. As you said, it is a business of spikes and troughs and February often brings a spike, and I hope the same is true again this year. Seems you are living right in that zone I'm talking about, which I'm really sorry to hear about. I have an idea for a web page that helps us strengthen our friendship families that I'm stewing on... as if I need any more projects ;).
I'm grateful to have steady work that covers both of us with medical. There is this grey area where people still find work, but have no insurance, leaving them deeply vulnerable and often resulting in them taking risks with their own health, because they can't afford to give problems immediate attention.
You are right that for many of us we need to reevaluate what is important to us and to cut back on our stuff, our luxuries, etc, but for others, like deedop below (I believe she's also a freelance designer BTW), they've already done that and it's not enough. Before this is over I suspect some of us will be living with others... in their spare rooms, their basements, their storerooms. If that's what it takes, then so be it, but I hope we can stop it getting to that point.
I'm still stewing.
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