"People who are barely surviving have extremely limited freedom," he writes.
"All their time and energy go into earning enough money to pay for groceries, shelter, and transportation to jobs … a good society would do something about the deprivations, or reductions in freedom, for people with low incomes.
This is a beautiful sentiment. Shame about that punctuation tho.
She was delighted to put it in for us.
She is paid to be delighted.
Someone on Reddit found the source:
website with write up and graph
These problems don’t just hit the poorest individuals, although the poorest are most badly affected. Even affluent people would enjoy a better quality of life if they lived in a country with a more equal distribution of wealth, similar to a Scandinavian nation. They might see improvements in their mental health and have a reduced chance of becoming victims of violence; their children might do better at school and be less likely to take dangerous drugs.
You see, “upper-middle class”, you can benefit too, stop voting against it!
And he said, 'No, I ain't scared, but if anything happens to me, it's not suicide.'
He pretty much said “I think something may happen to me and they will make it look like a suicide.”
Unless she's got a recording or document, the article's title could have been, "Family friend tells reporter a story"
Yeah, it won’t hold up in court, and neither would it if she had recorded this casual, intimate conversation between two old friends.
Maybe, though, it’s enough to get the coroner to take another look at his death.
I'm not any defender of corporations, by any means, but I'm not sure that I'm willing to take the word of a "close family friend" who "needed help one day" any more than some corporate HR;
You sure have a lot more faith in corporations than I do…
I find it funny that the first lemmy meme obsession was beans and now it’s jeans.
It’s so weird to me seeing Squdward as the rebel teen when everything he is screams “curmudgeon middle aged childless introvert”.
Search is the only reason I visit Reddit.
Holy shit, this literally aimed at helping kids vape in school… this makes me sad.
edit: yes, also anyone in a no vape office, but I see these being used in middle school to high school eventually.
Oh? I didn't realize providing a link to an online resource was considered teaching or had anything to do with race or gender. 🤔