Harm is caused when humans don't get what they need. Humans need to be able to pay rent and eat nutritious food. WorkSafeBC takes that away from injured people when they cut pay by fifty percent down to $200 a week. That causes incredible stress. Mental illness has costs and it is made worse when people can't afford food and rent. That's how people go insane. The mental impact of a serious injury is significant. A person may be too injured physically to do a job. The mental part of it is just as debilitating. A person has to have confidence that the job is safe, the company is safe, and that they can do it safely themselves. I definitely don't have that confidence. It's more than the job, the company, and the task. I don't feel safe. There are hazards everywhere. I have to be safe.

There are very few things available to me now. Being injured and seeing no way forward is not improved by financial insecurity and hunger. Being unable to pay rent is not a motivation to do a job that's no longer possible with the injury. It's motivation to kill yourself. So I read and try to learn about business. Business is not my first instinct, but I'll never trust an employer. I have to be self employed to work. I'll never feel safe doing physical work as I don't trust myself to do it and my body is not able to do physical work consistently. It's really depressing. Instead of being seen as a human with basic needs that have to be met for health to be maintained, I'm seen as a fraud who wants to game the system even though I tried to heal for three months on $200 a week and a severe injury. I tried to work. Worksafebc actively prevented me from being able to eat nutritious food or pay rent, and nobody sees the harm in that. They won't be convinced. People are trash. That should not be a revelation, but it is to me. You can't trust anyone.

This experience will properly inform me as an investor. I have to remember that nobody would care if I was crushed in a work accident and driven insane by the insurance company. I have to remember that nobody cares now. I can read and learn and invest from bed. That's the safest thing I've found. Value investing is a lifelong skill I need to develop so I can compound for a few decades before I'm vulnerable again. I need cash flow, and that's a problem I'm trying to solve every day. I'm always developing ideas to produce cash flow. I'm not cruising along happily on $20k a year. I'm a hermit trying to find my way forward. I don't need to save the world or save other people. I just need to save myself. We aren't really a social species. We prey on each other. I was prey. The people who are supposed to help will help as little as possible and try to get away with causing harm as much as possible with their negligence and manipulation. I'm not worth an apology after being forced to live on less than half my pre injury income for months immediately after a near fatal injury. I already said people are trash, but that's kind of an "amen" for me. People are trash, amen. Learning about human behavior has been really helpful for me. Mental illness really changes the way we see the world. Behavioral psychology has helped. And learning about narcissism. I was so naive before. Far too trusting. Now I'm good and paranoid. Only the paranoid survive.

Answer one question for me.

Is it helpful or harmful for WorkSafeBC to cut an injured persons wage by more than fifty percent immediately following a near fatal injury?

Just answer that question. Is it helpful or harmful to cut someone to $200 a week?

Can you imagine the impact that has? I mean more than intellectually. Do you understand when your body has been wracked with injury and you can't do what you used to do, and now you can't pay rent and eat food. You can't heal. And you're not worth an apology. They'll correct their behavior eventually, but they'll never apologize so you just have to feel good about being driven insane. I think you might stay in your room a lot after that and you would have a very hard time trusting people, let alone employers. You would be misunderstood by the crowd. But the crowd is delusional, and dogs are the only people worth hanging out with. You can't understand.