As a blind person I have seen the disability system abused. Using Blindness as an example I can understand someone who has recently gone blind using Disability.

As a blind person I have seen the disability system abused. Using Blindness as an example I can understand someone who has recently gone blind using Disability. It bothers me when I see people like me who were born blind and are capable of holding a job chose to get Disability instead of working. I don’t understand the logic of this since it looks like your benefits max out at about $2600 a year but a lot of this depends on how much you worked in the past. I’d like to know how much the person in this article gets a month. I realize I’m lucky that I have a well-paying Software development job but I would not want to live on SSDI income. First it would reduce my quality of life while I could survive I wouldn’t be able to have the disposable income for things such as vacations or new technology that I have now. Second having a job makes me feel like I am a productive member of society. I am sure it is different if you live in an area with chronic unemployment but I would feel like my worth was lower than the average person if I made the choice to live on disability when I was capable of working while all my friends were holding down jobs.