Why are so many people on here defending ableist policies? Disabled people become homeless, die, or are stuck with abusers because they can't afford basic necessities and housing, but I've seen an uptick in comments blaming them for not having work credits.
I was looking through a post by a former SAHM who was talking about how due to being a stay at home mother she now does not receive enough money to live. Instead of empathy, many people were scolding her and defending the system, with some even saying that they didn't pay to subsidize people who chose to stay at home and raise their kids. They were saying she shouldn't feel entitled to a living wage because she didn't pay into it enough. This is incredibly toxic and not conductive at all to this forum. Thankfully, there were some actually helpful comments, but it was hard to see them while wading through judgement and nitpicking about her words.
I've seen these dreadful comments on almost every post where someone was terrified about their monthly pay and what they would do for housing and basic living. I'm not saying that we should lie about reality. Most people on SSI and SSDI have to leverage rapidly shrinking programs just to live in abject poverty, and many will become homeless as a result.
As someone who became disabled early and does not have enough credits for SSDI, knowing that is my future if I lose support from others or do not recover is terrifying. But seeing people in a disability forum defend these horrific policies is incredibly disheartening. Do better, people. Fix your hearts.
Edit: did you not see the part where I said "I'm not saying that we should lie about reality"? It is entirely fine to clarify those policies. Please get some reading comprehension. What it is not okay to do is to make statements that act like these policies are fair or reasonable, or act like someone is entitled because they'd like to not live the rest of their life in abject poverty due to becoming disabled at a young age or not having recent work credits. Please read up on the "Just World Fallacy" -- I think a lot of you are operating under this.
Edit 2: Holy shit some of you seem to not want to end disabled poverty, but avoid it yourselves.