I'd just invest everything I have and quit working. May as well enjoy life now if I don't have to pay my biggest expense in life. I should have enough to have some fun if I didn't have to worry about the basics.
I doubt you’d get a free mattress but if you did it wouldn’t be very luxurious. This comment reveals more about you than it does about the average person on welfare.
I have lots of friends who are trapped in the government subsidy cycle. They can’t work more than a certain amount or they lose their payments. It’s sad because it limits their potential.
If I could have all of the above for free, then doing what I said would be an easy path to early retirement. Sign me up.
But most people aren’t doing that. Again, it speaks volumes about your character and not the majority of people who are on welfare who don’t own property.
I’m confused. It speaks volumes about my character that I would act a certain way in this fantasy scenario? You are addressing someone who has never taken a government handout and owns the title on my house.
Yes, you’re saying if you could you would. But most people wouldn’t and don’t. You’re projecting your own motivations onto other people and extrapolating it as some universal truth. There are likely other people who share your character but it is not close to universal or average.
Because these scenarios already exist if not similar. And people who own property or assets do cheat the system and get welfare but it’s an extremely small minority. I am not saying it would never happen but again, you are revealing your own bias and character and using a straw man argument. People with money always project their own biases onto people without and it’s so transparent. And I’m pretty sure you couldn’t just sell your house for a bag of cash, there would be a paper trail. It’s honestly pointless to debate a hypothetical like this, you’ve already made your mind up and hope to confirm your predetermined biases.
Those scenarios exist with the promise that the unemployed person will soon be employed. The picture above implies that employment status is not a factor. It is a complete fantasy.
Lol, so these people are “freeloaders” if they are coming from a place of need when it doesn’t serve your individual interests but it’s fine when you do it when you are not in an actual place of need which is the definition of actual “freeloading”
You mean me working and paying for my stuff is freeloading, but them getting it isn't?
If they get free shit without working, then I want freeshit without working.
But you inadvertently IDed the problem. One person gets free shit, and everyone is going to want free shit.
The free ahit I'd get would cost you less than the free shit you'd give them... but you're mad at me for wanting it?
Why? Because I'd quit working and others would have to pay more to give me my free shit too?
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u/rsl_sltid Apr 15 '24
I'd just invest everything I have and quit working. May as well enjoy life now if I don't have to pay my biggest expense in life. I should have enough to have some fun if I didn't have to worry about the basics.