A friendly society, run for its members · No ads · No outside shareholders
Who carries it
What care costs, who ends up paying, and what a community can do about it. The question this publication started from, and the reason YourCare exists.
Read the cost of careFrom Tokyo to Washington, welfare systems built for a younger world face the same three pressures: more old age, a care risk nobody pooled, and a quiet shift of risk onto households. The third Five Giants essay asks why the strain looks the same in such different places.
By Simon Schwab · Read the piece
Two series carry the argument. Each part stands alone; together they make the case.
Private group chat with mutual aid built in. The same three pages a new member sees when they open the app. How it works →
Communities used to take care of each other
For two hundred years, friendly societies did exactly this, with a ledger anyone could read. They can again.
Ask together. Give together.
Raise a pool when someone needs help. Pledges settle straight to them; we never hold the money.
Private by design
Messages are end-to-end encrypted in the app. We route them; we can't read them.
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Before the welfare state, friendly societies were how ordinary people got by. We write about why that tier went, and we are building the tools to bring it back, run for its members.