I’ve spoken at over 140 events in 18 countries over the last couple years. This involves big festivals (like Wilderness, Secret Garden Party, Camp Bestival and Shambala), university events (such as LSE, Warwick, Cambridge, Oxford, Edinburgh), believe-tanks & institute events (like Open Information Institute, V&A) and international conferences in Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Netherlands, Italy, Sweden and Ireland. I truly take pleasure in discussing ideas with folks, so ping me a message if you want somebody to chat on option finance, economic activism, and economic hacking. I also know a lot of individuals in these scenes, so can also advocate other speakers.

In several states, it really is completely legal for employers to run a credit check on job applicants and disqualify these with poor credit ratings. As you can think about, not obtaining an address nor current income, and almost certainly past evictions and health-related bankruptcies or past due bills on your record destroys your credit rating. Regardless of obtaining a job, individuals still can nonetheless drop their properties or be unable to afford housing.

From my own expertise, when i was homeless, I had to hold a optimistic attitude as the mentors in the homeless shelter didn’t want to think that I was going to get a job. They even said to me.. ‘Okay if you get a job, where are you going to live’ which is a fair point, but ive often believed that where there is a will there is constantly a way. To this day, I am actually disgusted by the way homeless folks are treated. There is a lengthy standing stigma that you are a bad person, using drugs or a criminal, when in reality often you can’t handle the situations.

Possibly what we really need is to break that binary. We require activists …