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[-] Tammo-Korsai@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago

A decade of anti-benefits rhetoric and squeezes on living standards has fostered the belief that people on social security and low wages deserve a life of penury and boredom.

And death. Benefit sanctions have killed people by finishing off those with serious medical issues through sheer stress or driving others to suicide.

this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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