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Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't by mcguire on Monday March 01, 2021 @03:40PM (#26308087)
In your mind, is blowing the "last of his cash on hookers and booze" the median behavior of people who are short on rent?
Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't by xyzzyz on Monday March 01, 2021 @03:47PM (#26308180)
No, but the point is that when my friends ask me for help, I can use the circumstances under which they got themselves into needing help in my decision of whether I help them, and whether there is any moral obligation on me to help them. With government, there is no such option: they will take my money by force, use it for anything at all that they might possibly want, and all I can say is something on the order of one or two bits of feedback every 4-5 years.
Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't by dahfizz on Monday March 01, 2021 @04:21PM (#26308575)
In your mind, does that description fit absolutely nobody who is short on rent?
Re:On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't by mcguire on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @01:25PM (#26318547)
Not enough to make it a serious problem. But then I'm neither a Puritanical moralist nor a "better 10 (or 100) good people starve than one bad person gets benefits", either.