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To afford everything you just need to be disabled, then you get health care, food support, monthly income, and rent help. If the top 10% paid their taxes then everyone can get these benefits.
Can't tell if sarcastic. Too many people legit think this way.
Being disabled means having to be scrutinized regularly by government authority, by filling out endless paper forms in an attempt to justify your disability to someone with a vested interest in not believing you. I helped my girlfriend fill out disability forms last year. It's particularly cruel because she can only use her hands for brief bursts of time before needing to rest. Sometimes she sends me voice recordings instead of texts so she can respond to me, because her hands simply can't type everything she wants to say. Yet she's given page after page of questions about her abilities, the chores she's capable of completing, the hobbies she has, and so on, all so someone who's never met her (or worse, probably an AI) can poke holes in her story and deny her claims.
Don't even get me started on the income limits.
Not really being sarcastic, I am on SSI and have been for 15+ years. Was denied twice, even with the State declaring that I am disabled. To get SSI you have to get a lawyer to file certain paperwork. Went to several doctors that the government wanted me to. Luckily I also had a psychiatrist and a therapist so my mental disorder was on record. Also had a county case manager who put I so much work to make sure that I went to the correct adult foster home and found the lawyer I needed. That isn't even scratching the surface of the paperwork I have to go through every year just to keep my CADI funding.