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TFTC · 2d
"Food stamps are not asset tested. If you quit your job at Google and start at Facebook in 6 months, you're technically eligible during the gap." (dcposch) walks through the loophole. https://blossom...
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SweedWick @SweedWick
If a community decides to provide support to some of its members during tough times, the question of proof of need is a tricky one.

It turns some away who are truly in need, but it does allow for taking advantage or even fraud.

Who loses? Who suffers? What is the true cost and who pays? Not saying the existing support systems work or are well-thought out or remotely designed to truly benefit those in need, but the proof of need concept within a community remains a challenging one and intimately tied to issues around privacy.

But no worries, Trump accounts will eradicate poverty in a few short months.

LFG!

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This is the way.

Globe99 @Globe99 · 4d
#bookstr Just finished the amazing "Digital Cash" by Finn Brunton, a book I found myself highlighting more than any recent non-fiction read. Brunton provides a fascinating social-ideological anthropology of the hackers, cypherpunks and Extropians who were at the heart of the cre Show more
NOICE @noicemag · 1w
SATURDAY SHARE!!! Every Saturday we round up the photographers of threads community to share our work from the past week, or just all time favorites. Don't be shy, lets see your proof of work. Q: If there was a tool that could help you today in your photography workflow, what Show more
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Bryan · 5d
Agreed on anything Peter F Hamilton. I’d start with Pandora’s star and then Judas Unchained.
EdTeach · 1w
my thoughts exactly