Everybody wants handouts and anyone who says otherwise is lying through their teeth - ThreadSky

kaitave.bsky.social • 15 hours ago

Everybody wants handouts and anyone who says otherwise is lying through their teeth

One thing I'm fucken sick of hearing is that people on the poverty line "don't want handouts."

Well, the rich take hand outs. Maybe they're rich bc they were offered handouts. Maybe they're rich bc they take them.

This "shame in receiving free money" for the poor but not the rich makes me SO MAD

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kaitave.bsky.social•14 hours ago

A lot of people will say "well *I* don't want handouts!" and then you go through their history and it turns out that they love handouts, they just call them different things, or their handouts didn't count, but there isn't a single person out there who's like "actually I HATE free stuff!"

zanestheargent.bsky.social•14 hours ago

"You have hereditary permanent retirement benefits from your dead military parents, straight from the government's bankroll."

"THEY WOOORKED FOR IT AND I DESEEEERVE ITTT"

dragoncobolt.bsky.social•14 hours ago

this is why i do try and tell people that, like, I'm preposterously lucky, I have a rich family supporting my efforts - i'm getting handouts for fucking days over here

mechfried.bsky.social•14 hours ago

everyone wants handouts, but having to beg for them is mortifying, especially begging an institution having to lay bear your everything again and again

mechfried.bsky.social•14 hours ago

that is why uniserval income should be made into international law

hipolita.itch.io•14 hours ago

handouts sound great. I could really go for a handout

zacmanthedamned.bsky.social•9 hours ago

People hate handouts so much, that's why nobody plays the lottery.

comradeishmael.bsky.social•14 hours ago

When you're poor, it's a handout. When you're rich, it's a subsidy.

hyperentity.bsky.social•14 hours ago

the rich can never take a "handout" because to them everything that exists is theirs by right.

the poor are taught to think they deserve nothing, the rich believe they deserve everything.

edvtercero.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Also they're not handouts, they're supposed to be the result of paying taxes. Otherwise you're just getting robbed by petty tyrants.

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