The whole “you have to earn a living” rhetoric is really toxic. Have we considered that maybe, in 2015, basic needs like housing, food, and medicine don’t really need to be “earned” but should, in any reasonably industrialized country, be guaranteed?
You shouldn’t rely on someone to give you everything you have or own. No fuck that, work and earn what you have. It makes having it Alot More satisfying when you knkw you earned it
Except that not everyone is PHYSICALLY capable of producing profitable labor. The disabled still deserve to live.
Not once in there did it say anything about a disabled person. Obviously people who are disabled get money from the government because they are incapable of working and they need an income to survive but this is talking about perfect healthy people who are just lazy and want to just have things handed to them.
No, I wrote this post. This post is about EVERYONE. Including disabled people. Including people who can not find employment because they are uneducated. Including people with high living expenses because of dependents, or medical expenses, or food deserts. EVERYONE.
EVERYONE should be guaranteed the bare minimum of what you need to live. EVERYONE. Because NO ONE should die because they are poor.
No one will die because they’re poor though. In the U.S. we have welfare.
I hate to break it to you, but in the year 2000, over 35% of a 2.45 million death toll in America was due to poverty.
America has over 15 million children who are impoverished to the point that they don’t reliably have food.
There are more empty houses in America than there are homeless people.
Your medical system is among the worst in all of the developed world, where people are left to die because they cannot afford to pay for medical care.
Poverty is also a leading factor in criminal activity, when impoverished people are driven to find alternate means to feed themselves and their families, which contributes to violent crime, which contributes to prison overpopulation.
You country is infamous for treating its poor absolutely horrifically. Your welfare system is sub-standard, new, and barely functional for the demands placed upon it.
And yet the USA still manages to spend more money on its military than the next twelve countries combined.
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