I have been extraordinarily fortunate during the Covid Lockdown. I am very aware of the “same storm, different lifeboats” debate around the costs of shutting the hand-to-mouth economy down. I am a Soutie with one foot in the UK and one in SA, so am very aware of the different levels of government support available under Global Apartheid with single government monopolies, and barriers to entry and exit for luck-of-the-draw citizens. It is 6 years since I stepped away from the corporate world, feeling I had a big enough engine to finance my own (generous in relative terms) basic income. Most of my work since then has been unpaid. I started supplementing this by starting a small business 3.5 years ago, but have had no paying clients since March. My Buffer and Engine have kept me going. My Engine will need repair, and I do feel an obligation to figure out a way to do some monetizable work. The Covid Crisis has been a strange exercise in alternative parallel realities. Different Governments. Different Engines. Different Buffers. Different Values. Yet, we somehow need to gradually improve our ability to cooperate constructively. Space for difference, but with a capacity to handle the noise.
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