We live in a very capitalistic world here that there's this belief that everybody has an equal chance, which isn't true, that everybody can pull themselves up by their bootstraps, which ignores the fact that some people don't have boots.

It's a tough world for people who can't function in the way that we've decided to design this, where you get up in the morning and you go to work

and you sit somewhere and you do your eight hours

and you come back and then you sleep and you eat breakfast,

and you go back out and do it again.

Some people, that's not for everybody.

And it's not a very normal way of life.

You know, it's, Berk and Russell wrote a paper on it in

1922 about the fact that, you know, working eight hours a day is not a natural human way

of being. We've imposed this. Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you

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Here's your host, Karina Belizei.

Welcome, Regenators.

Each week, we explore the intersection of sustainability,

justice, and regenerative thinking. Today, I'd like to start with a personal story as we open a discussion about what it means to be unsheltered in America. I recently learned that one of my

best friends from high school has been living on the streets most of his adult life.

I discovered this truth when I heard a familiar voice say,

Under the Breath,

Hey, Karina, just as I walked down Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz with a new friend.

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