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having a job doesn’t disqualify you from saying you’re too sick or disabled to have a job. you can be working and unable to work at the same time. the standard for “unable to work” is not “no threat exists that would motivate you to try.”
many, many people face the scenario of “go to work or die.” it is vital to acknowledge the existence of people who, facing that, would die. but to say everyone who would work is the same, all just one category...only creates a world where the rich are more disabled than the poor.
“ability to work” and “cost of work” wildly vary in degree. if we neglect that, we ignore that the consequences of NOT working vary quite a lot too. we render disability classless.
plenty of housebound & bedbound folks did not enter that state at threat of homelessness or starvation. this does NOT mean they are any less disabled, nor that they ~could~ work! only that they are not necessarily more disabled than someone who faces those stakes & keeps working.
both those people can be equally disabled & truly unable to work. BECAUSE, one more time... the standard for “unable to work” is not, and can not be, “no threat exists that would motivate you to try.”
