• Ekybio@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Stephanie Hendon, 34, lived in a shelter while her husband was living on the street, making it difficult for them to raise their four kids. After a year of payments from the Austin Guaranteed Income Pilot, she had a three-bedroom apartment, a new car, clothes for her children, a new job, and new financial strategies for the future.

    This is what GOap fights against: The literal improvement of peoples existence.

    Never vote Republican. They hate you!

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      9 months ago

      Its selfish bullshit. Their response would be one of a handful:

      “Why should I work if the government will just give me everything for free!?”

      “Why should I have to pay for lazy people who made bad decisions!?”

      “Why does the government not understand debt!? They’re going to bankrupt us!”

      They strongly believe in survival of the fittest. Either you become wealthy or everything you did was your fault and a mistake and you should die if you can’t afford life. The only salvation you should get (I almost used the word deserve, which they 100% would argue you don’t deserve.) would be salvation dolled out by a charity that people volunteered to give of their own desire.

      Of course the charities never have nearly enough money to accomplish this which they fully understand but don’t care one iota about. It’s almost entirely selfishness on their part, mixed in with a heaping dose of ignorance.