I like my cliff. I earn enough that I and my family are ineligible for most welfare schemes. I do not want even 6 cents worth of SNAP. I spent my entire childhood on that, and it disgusts me. Thus, were this policy ever seriously proposed, I would do what I can to dissuade my legislators from voting it into law.

There are others like me, too, I am not unique.

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harvey9 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The cliff here means a disincentive to go for a slightly better paying job because you end up with less overall. I think the 6 cents was hyperbole.

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hobs 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Right, so people who would use their trauma to prevent themselves from thinking logically about the problem and helping those in the middle instead of some arbitrary line your mind made up?

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pjc50 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Never underestimate how many good policies go nowhere because some median voter is irrationally mad at them due to something that happened decades ago.

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NoMoreNicksLeft 3 days ago | parent [-]

Who would this policy be good for, and if it's not good for me, why should I care?

	▲	Bjartr 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Because you live in a world where other people exist, and how they go about existing can impact you negatively, both directly and indirectly. The fewer people living in and dealing with poverty, the better off the everyone else is.

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NoMoreNicksLeft 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>so people who would use their trauma to prevent themselves from thinking logically

You're using your trauma here. You keep yearning for the kindergarten lessons to be true, that we're all the same people and we should all share and all the other nonsense that was only taught to you so that the elemntary school teachers didn't have a city-burning-down-riot on their hands every day.

Even if you insist that I'm the one being illogical here, it's wired pretty deeply into my brain, and I'm not going to change. Not only am I not going to change, I'm raising children to be like me, and one of the early and fundamental lessons is that fertility rates are top priority. Be fruitful and multiply. There will always be more like me than more like you, and it's only going to get worse (for you and those like you).

	▲	hobs 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well, that's a very interesting and aggressive take about me holding up a mirror to your own neurosis, I recommend therapy.

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BeFlatXIII 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Would you like a golden sticker?