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Re:U.S. workers are among the most stressed in the world, ne... by dragontamer on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @02:23PM (#27519451)
Its hard enough to convince a friend to take unemployment checks, let alone go to a shelter or pull out a food-stamp debit card.

There's a toxic culture in the USA that looks down upon welfare. For those people, welfare doesn't exist, even if they find themselves in that environment. And since they've convinced themselves that they'll never take welfare, they expect others to follow by their own rules.

This culture leads to a particular anti-welfare voting pattern.

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Re:U.S. workers are among the most stressed in the world, ne... by MisterBastahrd on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @05:56PM (#27522023)
You say that, but as someone from bright red Louisiana, you will find that the loudest anti-welfare ranters are the same people who are first in line for every government handout after a natural disaster.
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Re:U.S. workers are among the most stressed in the world, ne... by throwkeep on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @05:58PM (#27522051)
The loudest "anti" voices tend to be those who engage in the very thing they advocate against. It's so common there must be a term in psychology for it.
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Re:U.S. workers are among the most stressed in the world, ne... by quintushoratius on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @08:58PM (#27523662)
There is. It's called "projection."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

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