Post #3276556
2026-06-06 08:47 UTC
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca This crosses over with a number of other issues such as our appalling school meals (featured yet again on R4’s Food Programme this week) or care for the elderly etc etc. It’s as if the English see social provision as a form of charity to be given suspiciously reluctantly and grudgingly rather than as social duty.
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@killick@dmv.community 2026-06-07 01:08
@TerryBTwo@ohai.social @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca This is true in the USA, too. If you're poor, you must also be undeserving of pleasure, comfort, or ease. "suspiciously reluctantly and grudgingly" is poetry. "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" is nearly as good. And it's EXPENSIVE to be poor. But that's another whole rant/rabbit hole.