Also many people have subsidized rent... my tenant is on disability and doesn’t pay for rent, food, electricity, gas, or subway pass, and gets $600 per month spending money, which is all provided by the government. She has asthma
Not cool to make these judgments about people. You're not her physician and don't have access to her medical records.
Also, you should not be revealing such private information about your tennant, given that your HN account is linked to your real identity.
I think the real issue here is some find the fact inconvenient that someone with asthma can be on full, never-working-again disability in the USA. This is a truth, and I haven't passed any judgement on whether it's good or bad. It simply is a fact that people such as this exist and live off society's tax dollars. You can pass your own judgement, I have no comment on whether it's positive or negative.
This depends on the severity of the asthma and other factors. As I said, you don't know this person's medical history or the details of all the conditions they may have. I think it's tasteless to suggest that someone who most likely has quite a serious medical condition has "lucked out".
>I haven't passed any judgement on whether it's good or bad.
Ha!
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