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    9 months ago

    Also of note is that the UN OHCHR is also bluntly critical of austerity as a human rights abuse, due to the way it targets minority groups: https://www.ohchr.org/en/social-security/austerity-measures-and-right-social-security

    Not mentioned is the way it helps established disabled people as a permanent underclass. We are simply less than human. In Australia, the more disabled you are, the more you’re exposed to being killed or maimed in an institution, or slightly “better” winding up homeless and exposed to violence and other crimes (if your state likes packing people into shelters like sardines) or the elements (if they don’t).