Poor People Should Have Nice Stuff Too
Beggars can be choosers and our sense of individualism has gone to toxic lengths
What do you think of the following?
Oh but it is. It is a controversial statement — at least to me.
Both of these sentiments are based on the assumption that people receiving any type of government assistance can’t be trusted — that their poor decision-making got them into the situation in which they find themselves and thus the state needs to be paternalistic in how they help them. Or if you own an iPhone or an iPad when on welfare, you are, to quote Scotiabank, richer than you think or richer than you should be and thus do not deserve the tax payers’ dollars off of which you subsist.
I have a different perspective.
My life path is one in which I have straddled different social circles and vacillated between socio-economic strata and lived on both sides of the road. I have a good job in a management capacity…
