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NKBTN@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I think I read somewhere recently that something like £200mn spent on ADHD support would save £2bn in crime and benefits expenses.
I’m pulling those figures out of my arse btw. But it was something like that
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
knowone@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Don’t talk about spending money early in a preventative manner that benefits society. That’s illegal here. We let things get bad and end up spending way more money in a reactive way that usually brings the worst outcome. And we’re proud of it
Naich@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Proud of it, and we demand it. A billion pounds spent on punishment is worth a thousand spent on prevention. What are you soft on crime or something?
knowone@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Not soft, not me. It’s best we all suffer so that some can suffer even more than others. Now to go to the pub for the fifth time this week to bury my emotional problems. Mental healthcare? Sounds like “benefits” to me
NKBTN@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I do hope that THIS we’ll at least hire an American-owned private company to do the reactive action in an incompetent and massively overpriced way?
justaman123@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah I think something that doesn’t get brought up in these conversations is that when we talk about how much money is being spent on something or how much could be saved specifically is that that money is going into someone’s pocket and they are getting a lot of money so they obviously don’t want it saved.
knowone@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Very true. The government is full of ways to funnel public money into rich people’s pockets by design. And then they do their best to convince the not-rich that it’s the marginalised in society that are causing pretty much all of our problems, actually
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
The rules of a civil soceity are written one disaster at a time