[NO-SPAM] Income Inequality

[Jonathan Meer]

simply saying that i am things does not, in fact, mean that i am those things. i am disgusted with the modern welfare state because of what i saw growing up on welfare. not that my household was the problem, our caseworker said that my mother was her favorite because she was honest, never took more than we needed even if she could, and didnt pull the janky bullshit that so many others did. we lived at the bottom, but we always had a roof, ultilities, food and clothes - not brand name junk food and $200 nikes and expensive cellphones, just cheap basic shit which is why we always had food and whatever. i do have a lot of expensive shit now because i was taught to be wise with my money by the example that my mother set.

the real problem was how every other house dealt with the same situation. my friends, some of whom werent on welfare and had two working adults in the house, would get their water cut off, get kicked out of their rentals, and any number of other bullshit because they were dumb and wasteful. so yes, your blanket statements about the poor poor pitiful poor are just junk moralisms that pay no heed to what actually goes on in the real world

i have plenty of sympathy for the truly poor who are better than their circumstances, but they are few and far between. i reserve the right to give no sympathy to idiots who engage in a LIFESTYLE that keeps them poor, and yet cry for more handouts as if thats what ails them. this includes idiots who dont get a decent education because they decided african american history was an interesting major but completely ignore that its not a marketable skill, and then take to the streets crying about the super rich keepin em down. its not my fault that people are increasingly sitting in ivory plastered funhouses to the tune of 20k a year.

so fuck you guys, fuck your self involved ignorant bullshit, go to hell

Nothing in what you've said here is inconsistent with what I've written, or believe.

I believe there should be a safety net, provided by our society, to ensure people don't fall through the cracks. That safety net should be mapped to people who genuinely need it. People who don't need it shouldn't get it.

There are places of genuine need in our world, and that need can be met with money, and it is immoral to be extravagantly wealthy in light of that need.

EDIT: Not to sidetrack, since I think this is really a red herring, but when someone says 'You remind me of someone', they are implicitly making a comparison. That's how it works.

Joe, you remind me of a bloated child rapist.