Honestly getting fed up with work now being treated as a health outcome. Like that is all the disabled need to get better. Working at Costa pouring coffee is not going to magically cure anyone of slowly drowning to death in their own lung fluid or reduce chronic pain. If anything is going to damage mental health it is having to work with the open sewer of the entitled general public. Or being treated like a disposable cog in a brutal machine that affords few breaks led by an egocentric with too much manager goditus syndrome. If work was a magical cure for anything hospitals wouldn't fucking exist! You'd think doctors assessments would be trusted when it comes to who can and cannot work and why they need financial support. If disability was just about work ethic and state of mind I wouldn't be puking into a bucket!
I also loathe how the jobless are being treated as some sort of pariah and parasite condemned for just not trying hard enough. But globalisation and automation has redrawn the map. It is not the 1950's, a job for life is becoming a rare unicorn. In my country, it is getting increasingly common for people in work to need social security to survive only then to be vilified for it. That is not down to 'chaotic lifestyles' or 'poor life choices' or any other bullshit person blaming phrases. It is down to forces beyond many people's ability to control. A hideous shift in what employment now affords has occurred.
That shift is blatant to me when you see nurses needing to use food banks. Parents missing meals to feed their kids because of unreliable work hours or other exploitative tricks that deny a meaningful wage while costs rise. The average age of leaving home moving into the 25 to 30 range. The difficulties involved even getting on the housing ladder. The erosion of workers rights and legal protections.
Then to top it off the youth these days are accused of being entitled and part of the lazy me me generation. Broken up for hanging about in groups. But all the youth centres are pretty much gone. They have also suffered a steep decline in wages, a trend that is growing not improving. Lost access to a host of things that I got to enjoy and benefit from growing up, much of it free for me. Get to witness accelerated biodiversity loss on an unprecedented scale. Then get vilified for pointing that out or skipping school to protest. It is all so fucking ridiculous! My only take away is I am glad I don't have children. What cesspit are they set to inherit?
Fed up with rhetoric now that turns lies into truth through repetition and denial. Reminds me of a quote from Catch 22. As it epitomises what is happening. I feel we are pretty much on course to being fed sawdust and told how nutritionally complete it is!
"It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character." ~ Joseph Heller - Catch 22.
