Using rational thought to identify and challenge economic systems that exploit disabled people, following Zera Yacob's commitment to reason as a tool for justice.
Zera Yacob believed that reason, not authority or tradition, should guide human decision-making. Applied to Money and disability, this means using critical thinking to expose how financial systems systematically disadvantage disabled people through inaccessible banking, discriminatory insurance, and inadequate benefits. Rational analysis reveals that disability poverty is not inevitable but constructed—the result of unjust policies and structures. By exercising reason, disabled people and allies can identify these injustices, demand better systems, and refuse to accept economic exclusion as natural or unchangeable. This concept challenges disabled people to trust their own rational judgment about their financial needs and rights, and to demand that society's economic institutions be redesigned according to principles of reason and dignity rather than ableist convenience.
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