YoUbU

🕊️ United by Unemployment: A Manifesto

We Are Not Broken. We Are Disconnected.

We are coders, poets, caregivers, architects, welders, artists, analysts, students, dreamers—and unemployed. Not because we are incapable. But because the world measures us by outdated metrics. Because systems built for efficiency have lost sight of humanity. Because credentials are gatekeepers while skills are screaming to be seen.

We are not here to wait for opportunity. We are here to build it—together.


Our Beliefs

🔹 1. Work is not identity.

Your job title is not your worth. We are more than positions we once held or degrees we couldn’t afford.

🔹 2. Unemployment is not failure.

It is untapped energy, not wasted life. It is the pause before innovation.

🔹 3. Everyone has something to offer.

Whether it’s code, care, compassion, design, hustle, insight, or hope.

🔹 4. Collaboration beats competition.

We grow by lifting others, not replacing them. We are mutual, not mercenary.

🔹 5. Ownership belongs to contributors.

No bosses. No extractors. What we build, we own—together.


What We’re Building


How It Works

🔁 Time in → Shares Out The more you contribute, the more stake you own.

💸 Reputation earns Revenue What you build, refer, fix, or ship—can generate shared income.

🤝 Mutuality first If you win, we all win. And if you’re stuck, we pull you in—not push you out.


Our Enemies

❌ Credentialism ❌ Exploitative labor platforms ❌ Invisible effort ❌ “Strong Buy” ratings on broken systems ❌ The lie that only the employed matter


Our Call

To the mothers who paused their careers. To the immigrants whose degrees were dismissed. To the overqualified, underpaid, burned-out, and bypassed. To the engineers learning poetry. To the poets learning Python. To the builders, the wanderers, the recently laid off, the long-forgotten.

You are not alone. You are not behind. You are the future if we choose to build it.


Join Us

This is not a product. This is not a job board. This is a new economic organism built from solidarity and software.

🌱 We are the seed of a better system. And you are already part of it.

“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.”

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