And I gotta ask a question to the people saying "just get a job" - does it really seem like the US has tons of jobs open at the moment?
All I've seen online is people, even those that are gainfully employed, struggling like fuck for a while. Whatever economic miracles currently happening with AI don't affect the actual bottom line and that bubble seems probable it is going to pop. The entire US economy is propped up by massive software companies that are shit and only hire middle manager faggots. Those companies are IMHO remarkably unstable behind the scenes and international competition has never been greater.
US antitrust tools have basically been nothing and Amazon, Meta/Facebook and Google as well as all the giant fucking food companies at the root of this EBT shit have all been allowed to basically freely buy up competitors and although none of them are technically actual monopolies they act as such. None of these companies are innovative anymore and none of them hire normal people (except for Amazon who uses them in literal wage cages).
Is it really reality right now that the supposed lazy 10-20% of the entire country out there on EBT can actually go out there and get a job right now?
Or is it more probably that this entire EBT fiasco is more rooted in giant inequality within the US (not necessarily meaning rich billionaires vs poor food stampers but rather giant monopolistic corporations being able to do whatever the fuck they want to)
Luigi shot that CEO in NYC and basically showed how extremely consolidated the entire healthcare industry in the US is and I watched this video about the food industry in america recently which seems highly relevant to this thread:
TLDR: isn't all of this food stamp shit just the end result of corporations being able to do whatever the fuck they want to forever? How is Mark Zuckerberg and Meta helping with the food stamp situation? Do you seriously think that nigger puts money back into the US economy?