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Being disabled you get to experience the wonders of the free and efficient market every day. For example when you need to go somewhere, as a rational actor you
by ad404b8a372f2b9 5y ago
Being disabled you get to experience the wonders of the free and efficient market every day.
For example when you need to go somewhere, as a rational actor you can choose with your wallet:
* You can choose to go by foot using the sidewalks that aren't accessible.
* You can choose to use public transport which is not accessible.
* You can call a cab and pay an exorbitant amount as long as you don't tell them that you're disabled or they won't come and they might still leave when they see you.
* You can call an Uber which is quite pricy as well as long as you don't tell them you're disabled or they won't come and they might still leave when they see you.
Thankfully after three years of bureaucratic mazes and appeals, the magnanimous state has granted you benefits, although they don't constitute a living wage and don't allow you to pay rent nor food. (The glorious free market has given you a choice of one of twelve accessible dwellings in a radius of a 100km so that you may rationally choose the lowest rent.)
Since you can't pay for rent and food and transportation you'll need to find a job to pay for your lavish lifestyle. Now if it's before 2020 don't expect remote work, disability associations have been asking for it for 10 years for jobs that don't require physical presence but as everyone knows that's entitlement of the highest order. Although if it's after 2020 then it stops being entitlement because the average person needs it and wants it.
Now if you've managed to get yourself an education before hand, despite your health issues, your inability to go outside, and your general standing as a second-class citizen, then you should be able to get a remote job, and even if it stops being remote you should be able to pay to go there using the methods listed above. Although if you make below or up to the median salary, it'll cost your more to go to and from work than what you earn there, also you no longer have your benefits. But at least you get to be part of society as long as it's the only place you go because leisure is entitlement.
This is not fiction, this is how I got my first job, although Uber wasn't a thing back then, and you couldn't be remote. Also I didn't have benefits, I did freelance while I was doing a Masters at a college I couldn't attend because of transportation costs, save for the exams. Then when I got my first job I did pay more than my salary in cab fares using my savings and the rest of my college loans until I could move up and get a higher salary.