Not even a “Start Here”, “Locations”, or something super basic like that. They really want you to deputize yourself and the local “Big Brother” super snitch. lenin-rage It really got me heated lenin-rage , slamming away on the keyboard helping a less then tech-savvy person input their information and upload their documents. At the very least I think I got them squared away, and helping others is cool.

The supposed vigilance against “Welfare queens” is so goddamn stupid. If we really actually wanted to protect local and state budgets, we would y’know at the very least do something about tax avoidance/evasion. Of course this isn’t about budgets at all, just making public services as punitive as possible. The bandits of Neoliberalism attempting to coarse people into the workforce while simultaneously robbing the public wealth.

It just gets me so mad, katz are out here struggling and even trying to do the “right thing” and they are “supposed to do” and we go and it so fuckin’ difficult to do so.

Be sure to check out the c/mutal_aid channel to help out some strangers, cause I’m pretty damn sure their local government isn’t gonna do it.

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    I milked unemployment for a bit. They made you apply for jobs every week, but the trick was that you could just click the link and that would count as applying even if you didn’t fill anything out. So every week I’d just click three links to job applications and immediately close them.

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      Canada does it mostly on the honours system, you just click a checkbox that says “I am willing and capable of working full time” or smthng every other week. I think they have random audits, but generally there isn’t some quota to fill. Which makes sense, like having recently laid off accountants go to job interviews at Tim Horton’s to check a box isn’t a good use of anyone’s time.

      It’s also a system you pay into that’s capped in amount and time based on how much you paid in, so it’s generally politically unpopular to police it too much.