Thread by @Tori_DLCR

Why, other than it being the right thing to do, should you care about disability or welfare if you're not on it?

Put simply, self interest.

If you think you can separate their material conditions from yours, you're deluding yourself. 🧵

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#Canlab #LivingWage

The low wages and rollback of labour rights for the worker under neoliberalism are connected to the low rates and degradation of those on benefits. The insufficiency of benefit programs, feeds a ready supply of labour to low wage paying employers. Trapping the working class

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into a cycle of poverty whether they earn a wage or receive assistance.

If you are poor and look down on people on disability or welfare and support punitive measures intrusiveness, cuts and austerity etc. to social welfare recipients, what you are unwittingly supporting

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is low wages and exploitation of those who work for a wage, because not only does the precariousness of social assistance ensure a class of desperate people who will take any job, no matter how awful; it ensures there is a class of employers who can get by paying marginally

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better than welfare and not a cent more, and employers who do marginally better than they do and so on, all the way up the ladder.

Thus, standing up for those who work, means standing up for those who can't / don't work as well.

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#ODSPoverty #ODSP