For me, one of the most eye-opening aspects of the fediverse is seeing just how many fedizens are struggling at the moment.

Health, money, transphobia, whatever.

I don't recall seeing this on other social networks that I've used in the past.

Mutual aid posts - people asking for help, usually financial, from other people here - are so common in my feed. People just scraping by, bill to bill, or not actually scraping by at all.

What a rubbish state of affairs.

I appreciate that Universal Basic Income - UBI - would not solve *everything*, but for goodness' sake it must be worth a try.