>>Yeah. It’s fairly common for people to note that America doesn’t actually have “poor” people. Our poor people have cell phones, cable TV and Facebook accounts.
>>If we want people to work, we should probably strive to make poverty less desirable. I don’t like EBT cards. I like bags of rice, bags of beans and boxes of cheese distributed once a month. Somebody wants “stuff”? They should get a job.
I agree. It’s too easy to be comfortably poor in the USA. Get some skills and do work under the table and you can live like a king and still be “poor”.
Those numerous stories of people buying steak and lobster with their EBT cards? I would bet that a number of them are women working "off the books" as housekeepers for wealthy families. Do the shopping for your employer, pay for it with EBT, and your employer gives you cash. Meanwhile, you get most of the food for yourself at "food pantries".
Have more than a few friends that do just that. Life on their own terms.