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Re:Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps for grocery de... by searealist on Thursday September 21, 2023 @01:30AM (#37593540)
Unless you think it should be ok for a food stamp recipient to use their entire monthly balance at a high end steak house, then you also judge how another fellow human decides to eat food. The question then becomes where you draw the line.
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Re:Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps for grocery de... by diebeforei485 on Thursday September 21, 2023 @01:53AM (#37593700)
> it should be ok for a food stamp recipient to use their entire monthly balance at a high end steak house

I really think it should!

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Re:Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps for grocery de... by deredede on Thursday September 21, 2023 @02:02AM (#37593762)
This is about using Uber eats for groceries, not for restaurant meals.
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Re:Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps for grocery de... by autoexec on Thursday September 21, 2023 @05:11AM (#37595126)
Personally, I wouldn't even care if it were for restaurant meals too. They've only got so much money in assistance. If they want to use some of that to eat a whopper so what?
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Re:Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps for grocery de... by jabradoodle on Thursday September 21, 2023 @03:32AM (#37594332)
I think that would be a stupid thing to do, and they should be free to do it.
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Re:Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps for grocery de... by irreticent on Thursday September 21, 2023 @01:57PM (#37601416)
A lot of the comments here remind me of the debate about student loan forgiveness. Some say, "Why should they have their loan forgiven when I had to pay mine?!"

I know, these are two completely different topics that can't be compared. I just feel a lot of people here think "Why should they get free food if I have to pay for it?".

IMO it's a very selfish way of thinking.

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Re:Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps for grocery de... by kalleboo on Thursday September 21, 2023 @04:56AM (#37594990)
Where I'm from "food stamps" aren't a thing. We just give poor people money and treat them like adults and let them use their own judgement on what to buy.

As far as I can tell, "Food stamps" are only a thing in the United States. Everywhere else just pays struggling people money.

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