• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Or, what if their healthcare continued to be free so they wouldn’t have an incentive to find a way to live on $700 month?

    I know one of those young men playing video games, and he REALLY wants a job, but no matter how he works the math, the medication that keeps him alive costs more than what he’d make. So, his only choice is to budget around permanent poverty or die.

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      9 hours ago

      Same reason I’ve been unemployed for a long while, my disability and medicare covers so much of my costs that working would likely result in less money in my pocket.

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        8 hours ago

        What are you going to do after all this is over, and it’s either even harder to get or just completely gone? Im sorry you have to go through any of this…

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          No idea, I have a good support structure, so I’m probably not completely fucked if/when it comes down to it. Also my doctor has implied he has some way of helping, should the shit hit the fan, not sure what that could possibly entail though.