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[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Way too many people are absolutely appalled when I say I don’t care if some of my taxes go to keeping lazy people alive, inside, fed, and warm. I don’t care if someone is not working because they’re disabled, being educated, looking for a job, or just lazy, no one should live without basic human dignity.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

What else is labor good for if not making things better? I want to chase improvement, not profit.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FR FR, defrauding the system should be punished, not prevented, because right now preventative measures are very obviously doing jack shit in actual service to the public

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I’m not even talking about fraud. I think someone should still be entitled to a basic existence even if they don’t want to work. Like sure, don’t give them an Xbox Series X, but, give them food and heat. Maybe even an Xbox 360. What are those, like $30?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My point is that the argument for not doing that derives from paranoia about the system being defrauded by the unscrupulous poor or whatever

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Laziness is NOT an existential threat.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I will gladly accept if my taxes go to someone lazy if it means people that need it are getting the assistance they need. It'll happen anyways may as well help people who need it. That said I don't condone people scamming the system but it's either very high administration costs or people that need it don't get it usually. I went on assistance once, needed it short term, recall some dude talking about how it was his weekend spending money. Annoying to hear but I got the assistance I needed for that short time till I got a job. Always felt my attitude would fit better in some European or Scandinavian countries but I'm older now and don't speak anything other than English.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Minor nitpick: if it's snowing outside (and you can do so), then wear a fucking sweater inside! Heating a whole room by a few degrees when you could just not run around with a T-shirt is just so wasteful.

If you can't wear one, because you're disabled, then ignore my rant, please.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Electricity companies hate this trick!

For real I dont understand why people forget that they can just wear thicker clothes even at home. And they complain the electricity is expensive

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Significantly lowering indoors temperatures can have detrimental effects on health, particularly for elderly people. Also, electricity should be sufficiently accessible and cheap that I don't need to freeze my butt off in my home in order to pay the bills.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ah, to be young again and not have your hands and feed start freezing indoors when it starts getting chilly outside...

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If everyone has a home how can I look down on the homeless and drug addicted while I drink cheap bourbon?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Gesundheit.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

If only we could codify these 'rights' into some kind of a 'bill'...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everyone is talking about the politics, but there's that symbol in the bottom right that drew my attention. Is it some encoded data?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Wondering the same

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

UBI, single payer, and free college for all. Yes we can, and absolutely should!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)

Is the verdict really in on UBI? Hasn't the concern been it would be equivalent to the school voucher coupons and justified to gut a wide variety of social services in the end resulting in less net-benefit to the working class?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Heck, if we could have all that for free, what's the point of working?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd continue working if it meant I could afford more luxury in life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I go to work and still can't afford the bare minimum of what's listed up there.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's the point, it shouldn't be like that

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (11 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly if we just tax the rich and start distributing government surplus we probably wouldn't even need to mandate most of this list.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you could mandate the things you mentioned and the list.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm a simple man. I see Eddie Izzard, I upvote

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does owning adequate clothing even mean?

Here in California, I can go to a local shelter right now and get all of these things. Except adequate clothing because I don't know what that even means.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'd assume adequate clothing means clothing that fits properly, and is appropriate for the climate and weather.

Sometimes I see homeless people wearing shoes that look way to big for them and I'm guessing it's because that was the closest they could find that fit on their feet so they just had to go with that. It's really not adequate though because it could be a tripping hazard.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

civlized countries are starting to realize it's cheaper to help people than keep them in poverty

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

You are promising a lot from an institution that is corrupt to its core and has a vested interest in denying you these things in order to extract the most out of you and hoping you die before society has to support you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

So what if now hear me out we do none of that, and do number go up instead - you know - for the shareholders?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No! We can't do this! That's communism!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Cooling? Is this some US thing?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

In 2022, over 1600 Americans died from heat related illnesses.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

In many places in the US, if you do not have a system to remove humidity from the air in a space, you will fail to regulate your body temperature via sweating, leading to heat stroke and more.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The post literally links to US government sites, so I am hopeful you’ll be able to sort out this mystery

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yes. I assume you're in Europe, it's way hotter here and an apartment without AC is essentially useless much of the year.

Same reason we guzzle ice water (or soft drinks) like crazy people in restaurants.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Last summer we had a streak of 45 consecutive days over 100°F where I'm at.

I've never turned on my heater. I don't even know if it works. If it gets cold I grab an extra blanket or wear pajamas. When my AC quit working I moved in with a friend for a few days while it got fixed, because the inside of my trailer house can hit 125 in the summer.

In February I used less than 200kWh of electricity . In July I used nearly 1800.

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