If you're disabled, no longer employable, and relying on mutual aid, you already know the daily calculus of survival. But here's something you might not have considered: the actual dollar amount you need to be truly stable.
Let me give you the shortcut It's:
3X rent + any large reoccurring medical costs = pretty big right?
Just sit with that number and dont freak out.
A landlord typically requires you to make 3 times the rent. That figure - rent multiplied by three, plus any major medical and prescription costs - that's your base monthly financial foundation goal. For me, that means the cheapest studio in the area I need to be goes for $1200/month, so my baseline is $3600 in monthly Patreon income. That's the reality we're working with.
This isn't just about comfort - it's about preventing the life-threatening consequences of coming up short. When you're constantly fundraising just to survive, the daily grind burns you out. The algorithms hide your posts more and more. The risk of catastrophic failure grows with each passing month. And for disabled and vulnerable folks, failure isn't just inconvenient - it's homelessness with a risk of ICE sweeps of homeless camps, it's doxxing and swatting, it's CPS calls for the "crime" of being disabled and poor.
We scrimp ourselves to death - literally, not figuratively. But here's the truth: we need just as much to live on as everyone else. The first step is calculating what housing actually costs in your area for you, your family, or your nesting pod, then factoring in those brutal landlord income requirements. That number is your monthly foundational goal. Write it down. Own it. And if you're starting to build this foundation, reach out to me - I want to help support and boost you.
This is where AltUBI comes in. We have everything we need right now to create a UBI system without waiting for a government that would rather see us die. The same platforms content creators use - Patreon, Ko-fi, etc. - become our tools for liberation. By starting with disabled mutual aid organizers and community pillars (especially those who are unhoused or underhoused), we make the biggest immediate impact where it's needed most.
Our disabled community members have been the backbone of mutual aid networks since the dawn of the internet. These are the people who solve impossible problems while under resourced, who refuse to give up even when the system has abandoned them.
Imagine what they could do fully supported, free to bring their skills and talents to their communities without the constant drain of survival stress.
The neat part about AltUBI is that if widely adopted it forces the government's hand. When we create systems that work without them, they have no choice but to implement their own version - one they can control. This isn't just theory; it's happened before (school lunches). The tag #AltUBI was inspired by Alt Park Services, where individuals self-organized when the government failed. Systems are made of individuals, and we can create the structures we need when institutions abandon us.
I'm building a gallery of disabled community helpers who need this foundational support - each with a shareable graphic featuring a QR code to their funding platform. It's a small start, but every revolution begins somewhere. The more of us who join this effort, who create our own nodes in this network, the faster we'll build something that can't be ignored. (My Gallary/Node:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/129660339?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=android_share )
This is how we get people into homes and keep them there. This is how we reclaim the community roles capitalism stole from us - the Aunties, the problem-solvers, the caretakers. This is how we build the world we deserve, one monthly pledge to each other at a time.
The math is simple. The need is urgent. The time is now. Let's build AltUBI together.
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. There's also a certain irony in being mad at the country she lives in when a number of other countries don't have the resources to support the NEET lifestyle.
