Born before 1980: You’re gen x, why are you even worrying about this. Maybe go do some gen x things like writing articles about how much us millennials suck.
Born in the 80s or early to mid 90s: millennial
Born between like 1996 and 2000: This is the no man’s land. No one knows which generation you are from. Both will welcome you as one of their own, however.
Born in the 2000s: Gen Z
Born in the 2010s: dude you’re like 5 what are you doing on this site? people say bad words on here please leave.
I’m seeing people born between 1996 and 2000 reblog this and be like, upset they don’t belong, let me clarify. As far as I’m concerned, you guys belong in both generations. You’re still old enough to have seen the huge culture and technological change that we millennials did, and still got fed the same false promises of prosperity as long as we worked hard before the economy went to crap. But you’re also young enough that this change happened early in your lives, and you grew up mostly in the same environment Gen Z kids did. You probably experienced this huge shift way more profoundly than those of us on either side did.
Tl;dr. you guys got both the millennial experience and the gen z experience. Sure it’s hard to place you in one generation or the other, but it doesn’t mean you don’t belong in either. It means you belong in BOTH.
the US minimum wage that we all agree is too low to live on ($15,080/yr) is far more than many legally disabled people receive in benefits
the maximum SSI for a single person is $8,796/yr if a disabled person marries another, each drops to a max of $6,600/yr
while you’re fighting for 15 maybe look at that too
Not to mention we aren’t allowed to have more than $2,000 saved at a time. EVER. Like EVER or we lose all benefits completely. In the bank, in cash, it doesn’t matter. The government literally keeps us poor, while also making us pay immense amounts of money for health care that we require to even survive or function (let alone work enough to be able to get off of benefits, not to mention that there are a ton of people who will never be able to do that anyways). It’s a very, very broken system and not one that was ever meant to actually help anyone.
Plus, “marriage equality” is still a huge problem for disabled people (as you can see), which is something almost everyone is ignorant to/doesn’t care about.
DO NOT LEAVE DISABLED PEOPLE OUT OF YOUR ACTIVISM.
Btw that’s $733 a MONTH they want us to use for rent, food, and everything else. I asked once why it’s so low- how that’s even fair. She responded that they only factor in how much it would cost for rent and for food (with food stamps). That’s it. That’s all the government thinks we need to live. Rent and food.
And in case you weren’t aware, the disabled cost of living is much higher than the fully abled cost of living.
Mobility aids are expensive. Medications and supplements are expensive. Special diets to accommodate illnesses are expensive. Avoiding a long list of allergies is expensive. Wheelchair accessible home and car modifications are expensive. Hiring someone to do all your cleaning and laundry because you can’t is expensive.
And yet they still give us so little money that abled people couldn’t possibly live on it.
I want to make one thing clear about this: Some of you might ask how we’re supposed to live on so little?
The truthful answer is: we’re not.
The whole intent is that we die of poverty. It’s financial genocide, writ-large.
If you think I’m fucking exaggerating, then I’d love to hear, honestly, how you expect us to survive on so little, with the knowledge that our disability makes survival cost us more.
I’ve never thought about this before. What does everyone else think?
Couldn’t agree more.
So important. I never understood why Santa gave all my friends these huge, expensive things when he’d give us modest necessities.
Santa isn’t real
Yes, don’t buy your kids really nice luxury items because some people can’t afford them. Do you understand how selfish that is?
They’re just saying not to label them as “from Santa”. You can give your kids luxuries, just let them know they came from the parents and not Santa. Santa might have told the parents “so and so wants a PS4”, but when one kid gets a PS4 “from Santa” and the other kid at school gets socks “from Santa”, socks kid is gonna suffer some kind of moral crisis thinking he wasn’t “good enough” to get what he wanted rather than the fact that his parents are most likely fettered by the shackles of capitalism etc etc
I’ve literally seen little kids think that Santa likes rich kids more because they’re ‘better’. It’s easier for children (especially disadvantaged children) to think that they have shortcomings than to think THE WHOLE WORLD is lying, no matter how logical it might seem as an adult. And often times, Santa is one of the few happy beliefs they have so even shedding the fantasy is not a nice option. Take this into consideration. Gift your kid all you want, just make sure that he knows he’s getting it because YOU as the parent can buy it. Your kid will be as happy, and it’ll save many little ones from heartbreak if their parents might not be able to get them much.
the US minimum wage that we all agree is too low to live on ($15,080/yr) is far more than many legally disabled people receive in benefits
the maximum SSI for a single person is $8,796/yr if a disabled person marries another, each drops to a max of $6,600/yr
while you’re fighting for 15 maybe look at that too
Not to mention we aren’t allowed to have more than $2,000 saved at a time. EVER. Like EVER or we lose all benefits completely. In the bank, in cash, it doesn’t matter. The government literally keeps us poor, while also making us pay immense amounts of money for health care that we require to even survive or function (let alone work enough to be able to get off of benefits, not to mention that there are a ton of people who will never be able to do that anyways). It’s a very, very broken system and not one that was ever meant to actually help anyone.
Plus, “marriage equality” is still a huge problem for disabled people (as you can see), which is something almost everyone is ignorant to/doesn’t care about.
DO NOT LEAVE DISABLED PEOPLE OUT OF YOUR ACTIVISM.
Btw that’s $733 a MONTH they want us to use for rent, food, and everything else. I asked once why it’s so low- how that’s even fair. She responded that they only factor in how much it would cost for rent and for food (with food stamps). That’s it. That’s all the government thinks we need to live. Rent and food.
And in case you weren’t aware, the disabled cost of living is much higher than the fully abled cost of living.
Mobility aids are expensive. Medications and supplements are expensive. Special diets to accommodate illnesses are expensive. Avoiding a long list of allergies is expensive. Wheelchair accessible home and car modifications are expensive. Hiring someone to do all your cleaning and laundry because you can’t is expensive.
And yet they still give us so little money that abled people couldn’t possibly live on it.
Also, disabled people often are less able to cook cheaper healthier meals, which almost always take more energy, time, and physical effort (not to mention being able to go grocery shopping) than, say, ordering a pizza, or even just throwing a premade pizza in the oven.
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