Max Leibman1d ago
Between the conservatives’ desire to avoid giving anything to the undeserving poor and the liberals’ desire to avoid giving anything to the undeserving rich, there is no social good we can’t come together as a nation to stop.
Show threadIgnacy 🇪🇺

@maxleibman Except based on sociological and economical research we do know that there is no such thing as “underserving poor”, as any financial situation is almost always predetermined by structure, capital and conditions you are born into.

At the same time, it is very clear that there *is* such a thing as undeserving rich, meaning people whose input, labour and own contributions would never lead to privileges they can enjoy daily.

This is a deeply false and incorrect symmetry.

Apr 4 at 2:20pmWeb
Show threadMax Leibman1d ago
@ignacyy I am speaking from the point of view of the two groups and what motivates their opposition to policies, not making pronouncements about who is actually deserving or undeserving.

Moreover, you seem to have missed my point, which is that if we oppose free, universal public services because someone who doesn’t deserve them might get them—including someone rich enough not to need them—then we won’t have them for people who need them.

(To be fair, you may have missed my follow-up post, which linked to someone making that point more explicitly.)