• iopq@lemmy.world
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    3 天前

    I would spend very little of it on candy and soda, but not every person makes the same choices

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      3 天前

      I was very poor for two or three years in my early 20s. I was maniacally disciplined in only buying healthy, affordable food, no alcohol, no junk food, no sweets. Brown rice, beans, fish off the boat (a fishing fleet operated from our city’s harbor), tofu, miso, green veg. So I stayed healthy. If I had received any assistance, interference in my choices wouldn’t have helped. But the purpose of the interference isn’t to help, it’s to disempower, infantilize and humiliate.

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        2 天前

        It wouldn’t interfere in your choices because you didn’t buy those things

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        2 天前

        If I’m paying for it, I have the right to vote for this law. It affects me

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      3 天前

      So you agree that there is some amount of acceptable spending on sweets.