We all have to eat. To eat, we need money. To get money, we need jobs. There are not enough jobs. Once there were not enough people for the work that needed doing, and Governments had to impose hut taxes to force people into the economy. If you tax in cash, you need to be paid in cash to pay your tax.
If we live hand-to-mouth, then we cannot survive without a source of income. Part of wealth is the capacity to have disruptions, bumps, and gaps in money flowing in. An ability to survive the winter. An ability to plant in the spring. If you treat people as in-the-now productive assets, then their quality of life is chained to the marriage of the supply of work and demand for that work. This filters through to how people build relationships and communities.
The sad truth is that when you are young, it is about love and purpose. As you get older, it can be about the work that the person does and how they pack the dishwasher. Relationships come loaded with expectations. One of the key drivers of wellbeing is expectation management. The comparison between what you think should be, and what is. It is hard to manage expectations if we are at the limits of our spending.
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