people aren't having their needs met.

Like a lot of people are familiar with Abraham Maslow, who's a psychologist in the mid-20th century,

who talked about how people have needs.

And in order to be happy and content and live a good life, you need to have all these

different needs met.

And the most important needs are food and shelter and things like that. And,

you know, if you can't find work and then you're having to, you know, go to a food bank, it's,

I mean, it's really almost impossible to be mentally healthy. Yeah. I remember very acutely

graduating and being unemployed and walking around

the streets of downtown Minneapolis, which is where I grew up and went to school, and feeling

like not a part of the world, like looking at all the shops that were full of things that I couldn't

buy, looking at, you know, people getting in and out of cars or taxis that I couldn't afford to,

like, you know, drive or ride in. And I think that that's, like, a form of alienation.

It is.

It was already pretty common to people before the pandemic. The pandemic has exacerbated

it, obviously, to an even greater degree. And speaking of Maslow and the, like, the famous

hierarchy of needs. So obviously

there are problems facing like every level, affording shelter, affording food, affording medical

care, which, man, it would be great if we had Medicare for all right now. It would be.

I wish there was somebody campaigning on that that we could vote for. Unfortunately, all we've got

is hugs and good vibes from friendly old Uncle Joe.

Heroes work here. Heroes, yes. We'll clap for the heroes, but God forbid if we give them a raise

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