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Spending money in the US is poetic, because it's symbolic of how we're all intertwined with each other through our labor. Participation in the economy here is a
by jschwartzi 10y ago
Spending money in the US is poetic, because it's symbolic of how we're all intertwined with each other through our labor. Participation in the economy here is a social act as much as it is a necessity. That's one reason people get so upset at the idea of welfare. I think they feel threatened by the idea of a separate class of people who don't participate in the social ritual of commerce in the same way that they do.
- fucking_tragedy 10y agoThe publicized objections to welfare in America from politicians over the decades have been dog-whistle hold overs from the Souther Strategy era. The "welfare queen" with a Cadillac and six kids stereotype was pushed because it played on the idea of a black person living it up on my money. Unsurprisingly, welfare states that exist in homogenous cultures are seen as fairer by participants. Take a look at Scandinavia.
- ionised 10y agoThere's already anentire class of people not on welfare who cannot participate in the economy in any meaningful way. Its been hijacked, manipulated and transformed into smething that doesn't work for them.