Let me attempt to correct false consciousness that appears universal among friends, family, and acquaintances.
It's better to live where safety nets exist but are hard to access, than where they don't exist at all, because they were too hard to access somewhere else for you. A hard-to-reach safety net is still a net. No net is no net. Don't confuse difficulty of access with absence of the thing, and be thankful capitalism hasn't clawed back nets everywhere. Think you can rely on the church and charity for help, go check out Pastor Joel Osteen's backlash during Hurricane Harvey or Bishop Tiangello T. Hill backlash after a flood. The goal should be to avoid Spencerian states and Stirnerist logic dressed up as community, and dark triad personas filling the role of people who should care. Wanting for no one what you personally cannot get is still egoism, just inverted. If you want real community and light triad values, organize at the grassroots toward communism, and toward animist stewardship of land and resources as part of the same struggle, not a separate one, especially tho...
