Someone could come along and ruin your life by framing you for some morally-awful social-presumption-of-guilt crime. Or a nuclear war could start tomorrow with a strike on your city. Or a tiny little meteorite could happen to fall directly on you. Or God could stop+terminate the VM containing the universe mid-run.
The insecurity and stress are the human condition, my friend. That's what it means to be sentient.
You are arguing that because very negative but also very unlikely events that we can't control, may happen, we shouldn't as society try to improve the conditions of our lives?
No? What I'm saying is that there is no such thing as true security; and so you've just got to learn to live with the feeling of insecurity, regardless of what social safety nets you put into place. Even in a much better world, you will be fundamentally insecure.
Let me rephrase my original post: "We all die someday — and potentially sooner than you expect. There's no guarantee that any particular person will survive the next 24 hours. Even living in a bunker in the middle of nowhere, you could still have a heart attack!"
This is entirely distinct from the question of whether you should advocate for societal policies that make quality-of-life more robust/fault-tolerant to small upsets. I'm all for that.
My point is more that even if you do achieve a social-welfare utopia, you'll still likely be insecure and stressed, because mortality.
And, therefore, "insecurity" and "stress" aren't good indicators of anything other than having an overriding awareness of one's own mortality. So it's not sensible to base policy decisions on trying to lower them. Base your policy positions on rational utility-maximization, not on trying to achieve personal emotional well-being. You want emotional well-being? Go to therapy.
We (theoretically) have control to improve and enhance workers' rights, and can make legislative changes to increase job security, or decouple the ability to live and subsist with employment.
What the fuck? So one should actively go out and seek more of it? To me, BECAUSE things are uncertain, there's even more value in things that can be made certain. Then, we at least have the hope of being free to devote our limited, anxiety-riddled, conflict-avoidant, procrastinating brains on the parts that matter. I don't want to have to worry about things like health insurance or the wham-baam-thank-you-ma'am nature of US Capitalist idiocracy.
The insecurity and stress are the human condition, my friend. That's what it means to be sentient.