Submitted 10 months ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
Or, what if their healthcare continued to be free so they wouldn’t have an incentive to find a way to live on $700 month?
I know one of those young men playing video games, and he REALLY wants a job, but no matter how he works the math, the medication that keeps him alive costs more than what he’d make. So, it’s budget around permanent poverty or die.
They’d have to have free healthcare in the first place…
Same reason I’ve been unemployed for a long while, my disability and medicare covers so much of my costs that working would likely result in less money in my pocket.
What are you going to do after all this is over, and it’s either even harder to get or just completely gone? Im sorry you have to go through any of this…
I hope he gets Fibromyalgia.
Is this a reference to something in particular or just picking a random shitty disease?
It’s not just a shitty disease…. It’s a shitty disease that the Social Security Administration really, REALLY does not like to pay out disability for. Mostly because, unless something has changed recently, it’s hard to prove that you actually have it because it defies easily quantifiable medical testing, among other things.
Source: I used to be an attorney who fought for people who had been denied benefits.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Can confirm. Here in Canada, nobody works. We all sit at home and play video games instead. There’s no industry, no shops, no hospitals. Only video games.
TheBat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Exactly.
Even before computers, we Indians were happily playing Chess until Mughals invaded us.
And then we showed them Chess, got them hooked, and then Brits invaded us.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 10 months ago
I couldn't possibly do both things!
xavier_berthiaume@jlai.lu 10 months ago
In Québec we all own a state mandated PS5 (no Xbox’s allowed, that would be illegal) and play a variety of Fifa, Marvel Heroes and Valorant because it’s said to sharpen our skills and better society. Many women knock on my door saying they want me to grant them children, but knowing that my KDA might suffer from their demands I know not to give in, and to instead keep grinding until my next government granted dialysis appointment. Mon dieu que j’aime le Québec 🙏
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I’ve been on the waiting list for my PS5 for the past four years. Just like my family doctor.
loomy@lemy.lol 10 months ago
sounds nice tbh
NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Can confirm, only video games in the UK too. Certainly not the 6th largest economy in the world worth £3.84 trillion. Nor a labour force with 74.9% in employment, that would be silly!
P1nkman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Norwegian living in Denmark. I moved from Norway because everyone was just gaming, but I wanted to go to gigs, so I moved. Turns out everyone games in Denmark all the time too! It must be why the Northern European countries score so high in the happiness rating: all we do is game all day. It’s not like these countries have any money, especially Norway.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, most people I know don’t have jobs! We just run extension cords between our igloos to power our video game machines. If it weren’t for them we could totally be like the States. 🤦🏻♂️😂