“You're on the verge of losing everything but you don’t understand why”

Re:“You're on the verge of losing everything but you don’t u... by masklinn on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @06:10AM (#16273014)

Or maybe that's the lie told in order to make the system more complex and harder to navigate, with more gates people won't be able to pass through, and an entire bureaucracy to administrate that — conveniently drawing even more resources from actually fulfilling the system's avowed purpose, ending with a system which keeps costing more and delivering less.

As long as you can provide a steady stream of anecdotes and scapegoats it'll go fine.

This can in turn justify cutting the system because it doesn't pull its weight[0], and the people who hate social support systems can pat themselves on the back over a job well done.

[0] not all at once of course, you by start cutting ancillary services like legal aid[1] in order to feed the ever-increasing gate-keeping machinery you keep adding to

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/legal-aid-cuts...

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Re:“You're on the verge of losing everything but you don’t u... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @07:23AM (#16273309)

> Or maybe that's the lie told in order to make the system more complex and harder to navigate

Not sure if that's a lie. In my experience, a big chunk of the general population is selfish enough that they'll abuse any system if they can get away with it. In a way, it's tragedy of the commons all over again - those people, confronted, will tell you, "I'm just a single man, just a drop in a bucket". They conveniently forget that there are 20 million other people in the country thinking the same thing.

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