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Why would I be mad at corporations stealing trillions when there are poor people getting dozens of dollars!
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This is still 'the world stops here' thinking. Even in this filthy lib's world where the abuse asserted is definitely true and happened, and that 'poor people don't deserve smartphones'.
Why would someone think a phone is more important than milk for their baby? Could it be because this capitalist hellhole places an inordinate amount of social value on expensive phones? In some ways, an investment in your social standing absolutely paves the way to a better life in this awful rat race.
In addition, who is out there buying dodgy cut-price milk from a clearly incredibly poor person? Hint: It's not rich people. The only people in the market for that are going to be other povertous families who can't afford milk on their own and aren't able to get food stamps.
Fuck all these people. 'We literally gave this person some bottles of water and they DIDN'T DRINK THEM!!!" is possibly the lowest thing on the list of problems to care about.
This. And in the world today operating in anyway without a smartphone is really not easy. In my country we debate whether social services should pay for the phone, some come up with these same counter-arguments (it can be flipped etc.) yet you cannot even do banking aka have any money without one.
Also why aren't the poors allowed to do whatever they want with whatever they have/get. Funny how all "freedom" always ends when income drops.
Hedge fund managers, legally, do a lot more societal harm than millions of theoretical EBT abusers, each.