• iopq@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I bet it would feel very different if you just used food stamps to buy your own cake

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Probably, but then that would have enabled me to give my wife that or vice versa. We don’t have kids, but a lot of food stamp recipients do - same spiel.

      And even outside of special events, maybe that can of soda with dinner is the carrot-on-a-stick that gets a person through an otherwise miserable day cuz, shocker: poverty fucking sucks.

      That’s the cool thing about not having arbitrary restrictions on shit like this: people are free to handle their own unique situation at their own discretion, including whether or not junk food is worth including in that week’s budget.

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        17 hours ago

        Yeah, less autonomy is never a solution in situations like those. It’s just a form of petty oppression.