econ, disability
i think a lot about "meritocracy"
i think a lot about how the "meritocratic" promise of our society is "if you work hard enough you can give yourself all the opportunities you like"
i think about how, even if that were true (it's not), disabled people who can't hold jobs are permanently barred from those opportunities for something over which they will never have any control
"meritocracy" indeed
econ, disability
we need to wake the fuck up from the american dream
econ, disability
@typhlosion years ago a then girlfriend talked about her Welsh family coming here for the American Dream of owning land. Years after that a Chinese-Jewish friend mentioned that the American Dream was going from dirt poor to rich. At that point I realized my family’s concept was also rooted in money, that if you were well off enough people would see that you worked for it and prejudice would go away.
*None* of these are possible however.
