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geneusutwerk · 4337 days ago · link · · parent · post: Hipsters, Food Stamps, and the Politics of Resentment
I am conflicted about this. I have had some experience with what they would refer to as "hispter's on food stamps". The most recent was a friend's partner who quit his job, spend three months traveling southeast Asia and then came back to the US and got on food stamps. I was annoyed when I first heard about this my gut reaction was "this isn't meant for him, he doesn't really need this". In the back of my head I thought that by doing this he legitimizes the arguments from the right that the welfare state just means people will be lazy.