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The more you need help, the less likely society is to be willing to help you. (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 month ago by DisabledAceSocialist@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I can't find a link for it but I remember an article where they got a dishevelled, homeless looking man to go into restaurants and ask for leftover food. He was rudely turned away every time. Then they got a man dressed in a smart, expensive business suit to go into the same restaurants and ask for free food (saying he'd lost his job/forgotten his credit card or whatever). He was treated politely and given free food every time.

The link above is to a youtube video, in which an able bodied woman asks for help zipping up her dress and people help her. But when a disabled woman asks for help doing up her buttons, people refuse.

You see the same thing with millionaire celebrities being given free things while poor people are refused the basics of life.

Why is human society like this?

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[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

I've received different government benefits throughout my life ranging from social security to tax breaks for having a home office during the pandemic

The more I needed the benefits, the harder they were to apply for and get approved, and the more I was punished for having any kind of money

When I was on social security and I had to borrow money from someone, I had to either do it in cash or pay it all back (and have it show up as "a loan" and "paying back a loan" or something similar in the bank statement's message field) before the next month's social security application, or they'd subtract the amount of the loan from my benefits (that I was relying on to pay anything back)