• asymmetrical care
• friendship top
• cooling-off period
• catalog of connections
• beacons

• prologue: jsun

when the protagonist compares herself to everyone and it sucks

• sesp

then she learns about how there is much to set right in the world

• go cats

workaholic tries to solve it (and meets her bfff)

• coffee chat

takes a job at a stupid screw company and operationalizes her social interactions

• leave

says screw this and sees the world and the stupid screw company will never be big enough for her

like pearl of the orient,

• misser of friends you haven't seen in a while,
• cheeky corporate spreadsheetress in a long dress,

and for those counting, care is a transaction where both people give

• a writer,
• tangping, tanghulu,
• jade rabbit,
• sunflower-sweet,
• little girl with her hair all cute,
• could go to hell but we'll probably be fine,
• all-American Chinese in this beautiful country,
• free to go,
• animated by scarcity,
• playful pole dancer,
• aspiring polyglot of platonic love langua...

S Tier

• Medicare, Medicaid - (omg what if we stopped letting poor people and old people and old poor people didn't just die because they can't afford healthcare
• Social Security - classic consumption smoothing, loved by economists and everyone who's ever worked alike

A Tier

• The Sherman Antitrust Act (original form) - i s2g the worst excesses of capitalism occur when corporations wield state power and this says no thanks (has since been neutered by the judges)
• SNAP - everyone should have food. no work restrictions PLEASE. being included in farm bills in perpetuity is genius
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 - everyone should be able to vote
• Obergefell v. Hodges - and have the optio...

• pole dance flippy upside-downy
• writing a short story on food sovereignty, care, and big ag
• writing an essay on abundance
• kinky dungeon-y things
• reading (last read: How Do You Live?)
• cataloging social relationships
• trying to understand social interactions
• shaving
• trying to be ~part of [friends'] worlds~