r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Romulox69420 • 1d ago

People who do this are unfit to be parents.

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We have a locked dumpster area and someone just threw it over the fence.

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u/darkwingdankest 1d ago

for real I'm sitting on a healthy salary and I still don't feel financially prepared to have children and some people are doing it on minimum wage. not that there's an income for having children but think of the life you're going to be giving them

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u/732jerzyboi 1d ago

It’s never minimum wage when you throw in your taxes as a salary, WIC, Medicaid, everything else that we pay for! Hell half of them quit because they make more in money assistance than actually working!! How sad!

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u/thatonegaygalakasha 1d ago

I wasn't even gonna challenge you but fuck it, I have personal experience with this. My mom and oldest brother both receive goverment assistance (SNAP and SSDI) and it's still not enough. My mom has to work as an Amazon Flex driver and a Spark driver to make ends meet because there's an income cap on SSDI but it's so low that if she got an actual job making an hourly wage that would put her over the limit for SSDI while also not giving her enough money to cover all of our bills. On top of that, SNAP only gives her $100 a month, so we're lucky my brother also gets SNAP or we simply wouldn't have food. I can tell right now from this comment that you have never been poor or on government assistance ever in your life because very few people willingly go onto government assistance and there is no universe where that pays more than an actual job. They just keep you in this catch-22 of not making enough on disability while keeping you on a ridiculous income cap so you can't have actual meaningful work, so that you suffer and are constantly reminded that you're poor.

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u/shayesaintcecilia 1d ago

It’s not Covid stimmy times anymore bro, what you are saying is a myth that hasn’t been true for years and was only true for like a year at most besides. And in any case, so what? I’d rather bankroll some irresponsible parents than let their kids starve because I’m not evil. You on the other hand sound like you’d rather spit in a kids milk carton and call it charitable.

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u/thatonegaygalakasha 1d ago

I don't think there's anything worse than being loudly, boldly, confidently wrong.