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The more you need help, the less likely society is to be willing to help you. (www.youtube.com)
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I can't find a link for it but I remember an article where they got a dishevelled, homeless looking man to go into restaurants and ask for leftover food. He was rudely turned away every time. Then they got a man dressed in a smart, expensive business suit to go into the same restaurants and ask for free food (saying he'd lost his job/forgotten his credit card or whatever). He was treated politely and given free food every time.

The link above is to a youtube video, in which an able bodied woman asks for help zipping up her dress and people help her. But when a disabled woman asks for help doing up her buttons, people refuse.

You see the same thing with millionaire celebrities being given free things while poor people are refused the basics of life.

Why is human society like this?

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[โ€“] reazonozaer@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oppressive societies automatically view needing help as a failing because of their built in tendency to view strength as right. The more communal a society becomes the more, I believe, we would see the opposite tendency come about.

[โ€“] DisabledAceSocialist@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 day ago

This explains a lot about the horrible way Christians treated me when I asked them for help finding food banks/accessing food in general. They told me to "man up and sort your own problems out," and said I shouldn't even be getting disability benefits anyway because "that's socialism," and refused to help me in any way. I think you're right and they viewed me as undeserving for being weak.