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I grew up in the Mississippi Delta and still live in the South. The government incentives are to have more kids and no job. Drop your kid on the head or smack ‘
by black6 8y ago
I grew up in the Mississippi Delta and still live in the South. The government incentives are to have more kids and no job. Drop your kid on the head or smack ‘em around a bit while they’re young and you get more money on account of mental disability.
This is completely anecdotal, but olbrecht isn’t wrong. A lot of the problems with the system have only anectodal evidence, but that’s because of generations of practice playing the game.
- dang 8y ago> Drop your kid on the head or smack ‘em around a bit while they’re young and you get more money on account of mental disability Whoa whoa whoa. It's fine to make a general point based on personal experience but gussying it up like this just for effect is not only abusive, it's vicious. Please don't degrade HN like that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html