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The article mentions he gets his coffee from a local food kitchen. > And don't forget about all the rich people that your tax monies subsidize This is What-ab

The article mentions he gets his coffee from a local food kitchen. > And don't forget about all the rich people that your tax monies subsidize This is What-about-ism. I can be upset about both.

mikem170 5y ago
Point taken on what-about-ism. I find that I do that perhaps too often. But these connections keep jumping into my mind. I wonder if people get mad about one thing, but not the other. I wonder what the commonalities are, what the differences are. I grant that it can lead to tangents, but I guess I find value in it. For example, in this case, does society cut the mooching rich more slack than the mooching poor? It seems that many of us aspire to be rich, and that many consider the poor to be lazy. Our system seems to have a lot of bias built into it. I wondered if I was seeing that in your comment, and threw my reply out there. Maybe I should have worded it differently? Anyways, back to the guy in the article, lots of other taxpayers are happy to support local food kitchens, that's why we have them. He didn't "take" the coffee, they gave it to him. I understand that you disagree. Other people feel different. That's politics.
- tills13 5y ago
  > does society cut the mooching rich more slack than the mooching poor I think about this constantly. My parents and grandparents are so concerned about a situation where a single undeserving "poor" person is given support that they'd rather nobody be given that support. Drives me insane, especially considering my grandparents were all too happy to accept government support during the pandemic despite them not needing it (their words). ... I wouldn't consider it an opinion when I say that food kitchens are for the needy. This guy is not needy, he's want-y, maybe, or greedy. The needy are in situations they cannot or otherwise struggle to control. This guy is actively avoiding "fixing" his situation to a point where he is no longer in need of these services. The situation on the West Coast here is pretty bad. The homeless population is quite large and there's very little being done to help them. I can't help but feel it's partially the result of the older population here being apathetic due to the above.

The article mentions he gets his coffee from a local food kitchen. > And don't forget about all the rich people that your tax monies subsidize This is What-about-ism. I can be upset about both.

mikem170 5y ago

Point taken on what-about-ism. I find that I do that perhaps too often. But these connections keep jumping into my mind. I wonder if people get mad about one thing, but not the other. I wonder what the commonalities are, what the differences are. I grant that it can lead to tangents, but I guess I find value in it. For example, in this case, does society cut the mooching rich more slack than the mooching poor? It seems that many of us aspire to be rich, and that many consider the poor to be lazy. Our system seems to have a lot of bias built into it. I wondered if I was seeing that in your comment, and threw my reply out there. Maybe I should have worded it differently? Anyways, back to the guy in the article, lots of other taxpayers are happy to support local food kitchens, that's why we have them. He didn't "take" the coffee, they gave it to him. I understand that you disagree. Other people feel different. That's politics.

tills13 5y ago
> does society cut the mooching rich more slack than the mooching poor I think about this constantly. My parents and grandparents are so concerned about a situation where a single undeserving "poor" person is given support that they'd rather nobody be given that support. Drives me insane, especially considering my grandparents were all too happy to accept government support during the pandemic despite them not needing it (their words). ... I wouldn't consider it an opinion when I say that food kitchens are for the needy. This guy is not needy, he's want-y, maybe, or greedy. The needy are in situations they cannot or otherwise struggle to control. This guy is actively avoiding "fixing" his situation to a point where he is no longer in need of these services. The situation on the West Coast here is pretty bad. The homeless population is quite large and there's very little being done to help them. I can't help but feel it's partially the result of the older population here being apathetic due to the above.