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throwaway631673··on Unsteady income in young adulthood linked to thinking problems in middle age
I disagree. Yes, you should not tell other people how to live their lives.

But if these people who make poor choices and then look for handouts, from your tax dollars, then you have right to complain about their lifestyle.

I had to support my brothers for a long time. They just stayed with my parents, played video games all day, hung out with wrong crowd at night, and complained about lack of money. My parents would guilt me into giving my brothers some handout. And then they complained about capitalism.

And I would complain about them not working and not able to do thing I wanted to with my money but my parent always shamed me for being selfish.

After a lot of nagging and many time refusing to give handouts, they slowly got decent jobs and are doing pretty good. I just wish I had nagged earlier and stopped supporting their lifestyle with my money.

So based on my personal experiences, I don't agree that we should spend our tax dollars on helping poor but don't shame them about their unhealthy lifestyle.