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@Blackcloud wrote:

@chibam you totally nailed it with this one!! That’s also what I considered to be the problem too and it’s been going on in my head for a while. Even though we get the unemployment benefits, but at the same time the government doesn’t even care about us nor about our wellbeing financially at the end of the day. To them, we’re just a ‘number’ or a robot if that makes sense. 

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Makes perfect sense, @Blackcloud , and is all too accurate I'm afraid. And it's no longer just the soulless computers beeping away in some Canberra data farm that regards us as mere numbers, either. I think it's also become the 'professionals' we turn to for help, who have to meet us face-to-face and supposedly ought to appreciate the fact that we're real people.

You can forgive the computers and the miles-away beaurocrats for seeing us as just another data file. But when you get treated that way by people face-to-face, it really drains you of your faith in humanity.