What If We Just Gave Poor People a Basic Income for Life? That’s What We’re About to Test.

[Marrah_G]

237. I would like to point out something in regards to many of the responses on this thread

The negative responses to this, posts on FB about food stamps, etc I am left shaking my head.

All of these conversations have the middle class speaking against the working class, the working class speaking against those in poverty. Did it not occur to anyone that this is what the wealthy want? They want us to keep scowling at those below us on the economic ladder and focus on how bad/useless/lazy those people are, so that we never look up and realize that, as we fight for scraps, they are ripping all of us off.

The poor. The people who just want a place to live and some food. Maybe even a car or a vacation someday, these are not your enemies. The person on food stamps buying something you think is too expensive is not your enemy. The person trying to get SSDI or some help from the state, these are not your enemies.

The people at the top, who hoard money out of some bizarre need to gather more and more that they will never spend, THOSE are your enemies. They don't care about, they don't like you. They just use you in their own addiction to watching their bank accounts rise for no other reason then to use those dollar signs to gain power, to feel good about themselves.

Greed is the enemy. Poor people are not the enemy.