If you need help covering your basic food intake, it’s a poor choice to spend it on a “luxury”. Or if you can afford to waste money on a luxury, you clearly don’t need help with your basic food intake take.
Yeah that ignores that people aren’t machines, but there’s a logic to it, ven without blaming it on puritanism
You’re forgetting that alcohol is also a vice. It’s a known variable that even in times of strife and uncertainty, vice still sells — if not more so. They’re commenting on the embedded messaging of too-poor-to-deserve-it that fosters divisiveness among us poors.
Right I was trying to get that across. Their logic is why should you waste my money on something not required to live. But the answer is because I’m human.
I doubt the issue would be a “once in a while” situation.
Ah, so if you receive SNAP and drink, you must be an alcoholic? Cause if you only drank socially, you wouldn’t be poor?
If you need help covering your basic food intake, it’s a poor choice to spend it on a “luxury”. Or if you can afford to waste money on a luxury, you clearly don’t need help with your basic food intake take.
Yeah that ignores that people aren’t machines, but there’s a logic to it, ven without blaming it on puritanism
You’re forgetting that alcohol is also a vice. It’s a known variable that even in times of strife and uncertainty, vice still sells — if not more so. They’re commenting on the embedded messaging of too-poor-to-deserve-it that fosters divisiveness among us poors.
Right I was trying to get that across. Their logic is why should you waste my money on something not required to live. But the answer is because I’m human.
Apologies, I misread the first bit as a statement not a quote. We’re on the same page.