I am justifiably angry. At my struggle, yes. At the struggles of people with less ability to extricate themselves from it, more. WAY more.
And I have stable housing until Feb. 5. So I'm back for a bit at least! Now here's the result of my being back. I hope it makes you angry too. đź’™
Social services are closed 128 out of 168 hours a week, making them functionally absent for 76% of the human lived experience. Catastrophes don't wait for business hours, but we’ve engineered a system that does—prioritizing bureaucratic comfort over human survival.
In my latest essay, I perform a searing audit of the "un-help" industry and why "perseverance" is often just a code word for wasting the time of the suffering to pad the egos of the privileged.
It’s time to stop telling the poor to "tighten their belts" while we fund the non-profit overhead that helps no one.
Read the full audit: https://arcwolf.substack.com/p/the-elephant-in-the-american-dream
#MutualAid #SystemicChange #EndHomelessness #Wolfpack #Poverty #Substack #StructuralIntegrity #Redcap #Pittsburgh
