Your pay is only relevant to the cost of goods and services.

People used to be rich earning $1,000 a year. Your pay is irrelevant, the costs of things is what’s more important.

And taxes, fucking stop taking everyone’s money

Fuck employers, everything is TOO FUCKING EXPENSIVE

I don’t agree with that either

No, I love talking to you. I wish there were more people around here like you.

I appreciate this discussion. You’ve been a bright spot on lemmy for me, thank you

What kind of source do you need? Welfare was created to get people on their feet and off of welfare, not for a quasi-UBI program that it’s turned into.

If welfare was working, you’d see less and less people receiving it. That’s not what’s happening though. There are more people on welfare now than there was 50 years ago.

The war on poverty has been a failure. Time for a new approach

Why would I put more than the minimal amount of effort into any post on lemmy, knowing that 100 communist teenagers are just going to reply “lol wrong, you fascist” and downvote?

If you want to debate me, I’d rather do that in real time on another program like discord. But lemmy is just a left wing commie shithole

This lemmy app doesn’t even take me to the right part of the thread the comments are in half the time.

It’s an absolute mess.

I’m not going to convince you that throwing money at things doesn’t solve any of the problems it promises to. That’s a journey you’ll make on your own as you grow up and start realizing this as you get into adulthood

You must be hanging out in the wrong places then

Maybe I’m confusing replies, but didn’t the person I’m responding to ask ‘how did the US go wrong’?

Voting democrat, mostly

What solutions do democrats have that don’t end up just as funding?

We all know how this works out in reality. 40+ million people are on food stamps and the graduation rate is much lower than the 80-100% that everyone expects from programs like this

It’s ‘throwing money at the problem’ doesn’t work. It never does.

Democrats only ever have one solution “throw money at it until it goes away”

Welfare was supposed to do this already. What welfare has turned into is a perpetual poverty situation for millions of people.

To the point where people are disincentivized to work, and perpetually stay on welfare.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/19/what-the-data-says-about-food-stamps-in-the-u-s/

Oh the ‘throw money at it’ solution to the problem that everyone online loves so much.

These solutions never work, btw. But let’s keep ‘experimenting’

Welcome to the party, pal.

I guess……

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Do you consider all people with faith extremists? Jews and Muslims? Along with Christian’s?

That sounds like a problematic view of faith to me. A bigoted one, even