There is limited accessibility to cope in Capitalism | Coping with Capitalism Interview #2

An interview with Z. J.

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To begin, would you mind sharing a bit about yourself and the topic that you’d like to discuss?

Yes, so my name is Zyrus and I work as a caregiver, so I’m employed by a family and I work with their 19 year old daughter who has non-verbal autism, she goes to school and I work with her after. My topic would be like the coping accessibility that I have working in a setting out of capitalism versus previous jobs that have been working for corporations and whatnot.

Would you say coping accessibility for just yourself or just as a general topic or your coping accessibility compared to others?

I would say like the space that I have and the access and the tools that I have from my job that let me cope for myself and be there to help others in all of our collective coping.

Gotcha. Okay. Can you share a little bit about your discovery with this topic?

Yeah, before I worked for this family, I had always worked for a company. First I worked for Starbucks, it was like a very big corporation with lots of like hierarchy management, and then I worked for…