I never understand how people get away with it. You literally have some people crawling into a benefit office because they are so disabled or ill and being refused whilst others get benefits because their mother died 10 years ago.I'll start us off then, My UO is that people shouldn't be able to make a "career" out of being on benefits their entire life like they do where i live, loads of kids, never had a job in their life, get everything paid for them and know how to work the system to the max. They are doing it because the system allows it but it shouldn't work that people can be better off claiming benefits than going to work.
my flatmate always tells me about some bloke he knows who just keeps popping out a kid so the dole never pester him and who hasnt had an actual job in decades. Also someone he knows who works and gets benefit. Last time I signed on i was pretty much harrassed .. as early as 3 weeks in it was why havent you found a job etc etc? and by the end they were trying to force me to take a job I kid you not sniffing candles and feeling towels for only 2 hrs guaranteed work a week at £20 total.. less than a benefit payment, certainly less than minimum wage and certainly not enough to live on as a single woman.I never understand how people get away with it. You literally have some people crawling into a benefit office because they are so disabled or ill and being refused whilst others get benefits because their mother died 10 years ago.
I think it's two things at playI never understand how people get away with it. You literally have some people crawling into a benefit office because they are so disabled or ill and being refused whilst others get benefits because their mother died 10 years ago.
Keeps them out of trouble though. If you're lazy and thick as shit and didn't get benefits, you might resort to thieving, selling drugs, selling your body, or becoming an online influencerI'll start us off then, My UO is that people shouldn't be able to make a "career" out of being on benefits their entire life like they do where i live, loads of kids, never had a job in their life, get everything paid for them and know how to work the system to the max. They are doing it because the system allows it but it shouldn't work that people can be better off claiming benefits than going to work.
Yeah but a lot of people do those things and still claim tooKeeps them out of trouble though. If you're lazy and thick as shit and didn't get benefits, you might resort to thieving, selling drugs, selling your body, or becoming an online influencersociety doesn't need any more of that.
I think it's a chicken and egg situation. Whilst I'm anti hustle culture and very much working / middle class, I'm sickened by the amount of people I know personally who actively trick the system and believe its their right. I know one Man who has been on benefits for 25 years and always has money for the pub and takeaways, but never managed to secure a job. I know a couple of women who pretend their partner doesn't live with them so they can claim lone parents allowance. Whilst the problem is certainly at the top, I don't see that as a reason to not try in life and expect handouts. IMO, benefits should exist only as a short term measure or for those who genuinely can't work.Its too easy to punch down, when the real problems are at the top.
Benefit loopholes and abuse - uber rich & their tax schemes.I think it's a chicken and egg situation. Whilst I'm anti hustle culture and very much working / middle class, I'm sickened by the amount of people I know personally who actively trick the system and believe its their right. I know one Man who has been on benefits for 25 years and always has money for the pub and takeaways, but never managed to secure a job. I know a couple of women who pretend their partner doesn't live with them so they can claim lone parents allowance. Whilst the problem is certainly at the top, I don't see that as a reason to not try in life and expect handouts. IMO, benefits should exist only as a short term measure or for those who genuinely can't work.
I suppose I see it through the opposite lense. It doesn't make me as mad to see the rich wasting money they've generated or earned. Tax evasion etc is abhorrent too and offenders should be penalised, but i still don't see how it negates benefit fraud?Benefit loopholes and abuse - uber rich & their tax schemes.
Put a system in place where you get something for nothing, it will be abused. It's just easier to slate it or pass judgement when its packaged as lower class.
I get why it annoys people, I just can't get angry over it when there is so much more wasted money at the top end.
Or actually types gorgeous as “gawjus”, makes me want to rip my eyeballs out, phones bloody autocorrect everything no matter how bad your spelling is!My UO is that not everyone should get a vote simply because they exist. Why should my vote count for the same as someone who uses the word ‘mebbe’ and whose lack of basic sentence punctuation means I nearly pass out reading their rants because there’s nowhere to take a breath
If I was chancellor that’d be my first thing to fix, If Amazon don’t want to pay correct tax here then they can naff off, if the companies that should pay the right amount of tax actually did so then there wouldn’t be so many issues further along the line like with nhs funding etcBenefit loopholes and abuse - uber rich & their tax schemes.
Put a system in place where you get something for nothing, it will be abused. It's just easier to slate it or pass judgement when its packaged as lower class.
I get why it annoys people, I just can't get angry over it when there is so much more wasted money at the top end.
Oh I dont think it negates it, but theres more money to be recouped from the top and generally it is all seeped in classism, the punching down. They earned their money, so that can abuse loopholes to keep more of it, while the gap between rich and poor stretches further, ya know? I think people believe there is more benefit fraud going on than there actually is.I suppose I see it through the opposite lense. It doesn't make me as mad to see the rich wasting money they've generated or earned. Tax evasion etc is abhorrent too and offenders should be penalised, but i still don't see how it negates benefit fraud?
I couldn't care less about "spoilers" for movies, TV, etc. and people who whine about it annoy me. I watch a show that recently had an episode accidentally released early on a streaming site, and people were falling all over themselves to be fan police "don't talk about it or draw attention to it, it's supposed to be a surprise, don't share the episode or give spoilers, etc. etc." Who the hell cares? I don't like waiting for things and I can't stand this childish fixation with "we have to wait, no spoilers!"
Can be generally extrapolated to "I hate waiting", "I don't like surprises, even ones that are supposed to be nice," and "I believe in doing things ASAP not waiting for some supposed right time"
To add, let's not forget that a lot of people at the top didn't earn their money. It's generational wealth, some of them have had wealth in their families from being mates with a random king and being gifted a patch of land like hundreds of years ago.Oh I dont think it negates it, but theres more money to be recouped from the top and generally it is all seeped in classism, the punching down. They earned their money, so that can abuse loopholes to keep more of it, while the gap between rich and poor stretches further, ya know? I think people believe there is more benefit fraud going on than there actually is.
I said it on an older thread, but classism is a massive problem here.
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