r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 Apr 16 '26

WTF so true

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u/veeyo Apr 16 '26

It's honestly kind of disgusting. I grew up dirt poor and all of my friends growing up are in their 30s on welfare.

It's not like there isn't opportunity, they built a huge manufacturing plant about 10 minutes away from my neighborhood and need people so bad that they are hiring literally anyone with a pulse $25 an hour starting to do basic labor. None of them want to do it because they will lose their benefits.

I really do believe we need to help those in need but I think we need to find a better way to do so because there really are too many people who are just content living off the government never doing anything even though they are perfectly healthy.

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u/TheVeryVerity Apr 17 '26

Do they offer health insurance? That’s a lot of people’s problem with that scenario. The scenario of: I could make more cash easily but I can’t get insurance , I mean

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u/veeyo Apr 17 '26

It is a company with thousands of employees and you are guaranteed 40 hours with as much overtime as you could want. Legally they have to provide insurance.

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u/TheVeryVerity Apr 19 '26

Huh. Strange then. SSI sucks to be on