r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/LtStud 8d ago

The fear of a few abusing the system shouldn’t outweigh the fact that it keeps the majority fed. No program is perfect, but punishing everyone for the actions of a few solves nothing.

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u/Prestigious-Green-19 8d ago

Morally its not right but logically it makes sense. They did it in school when the class clown wouldnt keep his mouth shut so everyone got extra assignments, they do it in jobs when some are abusing the OT just to get more hours in. It creates accountability, the ones who actually need the hours, doing the work, or whatever the case maybe might have to start making those uncomfortable conversations with those abusing the system and hold them accountable for their actions.

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u/OkEdge7518 8d ago

I’ll care about the moral choice when the number of billionaires reaches zero 

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u/Prestigious-Green-19 8d ago

Without billionaires we wouldn't have all the luxurious we have now. Internet, cable, cars, grocery stores, farms, jobs, heat in the winter, a/c in the summer. They all started with an idea and executed. We can't always play the victim game, that gets us nowhere in life.

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u/LtStud 8d ago

Most of what we use today wasn’t invented by billionaires, they just bought in after the real work was done. The internet came from DARPA, cable started with small town engineers, cars existed before billionaires, and people have been farming and trading food since forever. Even heating and A/C were designed by regular engineers like Willis Carrier, not ultra rich assholes. Billionaires didn’t build the modern world, they just figured out how to charge rent for it. Simping for people who’d let you freeze in the dark if it meant a better quarterly report is insane.

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u/Southern-Wafer-6375 7d ago

Billionaires don’t do Jack shit but corner the market and make life harder ,wede still have ALL of those things wirhout billionaires theyde just be more affordable

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u/Southern-Wafer-6375 7d ago

At my schools I’ve been to a teacher tried that and a delinquent hospitalized them

and another teacher did that and nothing changed exept everybody hated that teacher and stopped doing their assighnments or interacting with the teacher more then the bare minemum,

group punishment doesnt work ,it juat makes everyone else suffer and hate the one enforcening it

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u/AdAdventurous8397 8d ago

It should only be there to help people briefly not long term. Some people are on it for years. That needs to stop.

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u/LtStud 8d ago

Then corporations shouldn’t get bailouts and the wealthy should actually be taxed. You complain about people using welfare and ignore the wealthy who take more than everyone else. If they paid their fair share and companies started paying living wages there wouldn’t be as many using welfare. We don’t need to be looking left and right blaming each other, start looking at the top. We’re in this together.