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Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman

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https://www.pcgamer.com/games/young-men-are-playing-videogames-all-day-instead-of-getting-jobs-because-they-can-mooch-off-of-free-healthcare-claims-congressman/

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  • mintiefresh@piefed.ca ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    But where's the free healthcare?

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I’m disabled and can’t afford a working computer to play video games, you rich motherfucker.

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  • gerowen@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    We have free health care? Coulda fooled me.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not concerned about some young videogamer getting free healthcare. I’m more concerned with the DOGE GOBLIN getting BILLIONS in government contracts to build rockets that blow up spectacularly, wasting a billion dollars with every explosion, just so he can quip “Just a scratch.”

    That’s a billion dollar scratch that could have made a huge difference in thousands of lives.

    I’m not worried about American citizens getting health care, I’m worried about Foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs getting BILLIONS in government contracts, paid for by taxes on the working class, while calling those same workers/taxpayers “parasites.”

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s a billion dollar scratch that could have made a huge difference in thousands of lives.

      Okay, sure. But consider that they didn’t earn those billions of dollars by sucking up to the right assortment of Wall Street financiers and rich family members.

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  • Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Anybody who has ever been unfortunate enough to have to apply for any of these healthcare or food stipend programs would know that it’s not as easy as the government makes it seem. In fact, the amount of bureaucracy, means testing, and highly restrictive income limitations means that most people don’t qualify period and people who do qualify have to spend an inordinate amount of time waiting to hear back from the government to know if they have been accepted or not, all the while hoping and praying they don’t get sick and can manage their money long enough to continue feeding themselves.

    Case in point, my fiance is out of work right now and actively seeking work. She applied for both MediCAL and SNAP and was denied for MediCAL because she had earned too much already that year to qualify and the SNAP benefits totaled out to $20/month in food stamps, based on historical income, which is insufficient even for the most frugal of individuals to make work. This is for someone currently earning $0/month and being almost entirely supported by me.

    After a certain point, it becomes a massive drain on your time and resources that could be spent looking for a job, so you stop bothering with the system altogether because who wants to spend hours doing paperwork and submitting claims just to get enough spare change to buy a bulk bag of rice to feed yourself a struggle meal?

    I don’t want to hear shit about “handouts” from anybody. My fiance paid her taxes faithfully for years without ever having to rely on the program, so where are her benefits? She has undoubtedly paid more into the system than she will ever extract.

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  • CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Rich people always think they pay for everyone. Wrong.

    We are in the same society. A society with no hope is not a stable society.

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  • theotherbelow@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its a lot more rewarding than choking on a small carrot.

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    • Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Should have chewed first.

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t accept the premise that working a job to make someone else rich is axiomatically good.

    Many jobs make the world worse. I’d rather someone sit at home and play Tetris than build murder-drones, or work on some sort of AI powered stalking-ad company.

    Many of the jobs are just bullshit. Another “AI” company? Another product manager with no real decision making power? A few billion dollars poured into “the metaverse”? Waste of time and resources.

    That aside, most jobs make the owners rich while labor gets a few crumbs. You work all day making widgets. The boss pays you $10. They sell your widgets for $1000. That’s a bum deal. But there’s a thousand desperate people waiting to take your spot, plus union busters eager to betray labor and beat you up. Pay people the real value of their labor, and treat them with respect, and you’d likely get more people working.

    Johnson is a heretical, hypocritical, piece of shit. No one should take him seriously. His church should – wait, he’s southern baptist? The “we’re going to split off because we want slavery” sect? Not surprising. Those assholes suck.

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  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Can confirm. Here in Canada, nobody works. We all sit at home and play video games instead. There’s no industry, no shops, no hospitals. Only video games.

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    • TwinTitans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, most people I know don’t have jobs! We just run extension cords between our igloos to power our video game machines. If it weren’t for them we could totally be like the States. 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

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    • NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Can confirm, only video games in the UK too. Certainly not the 6th largest economy in the world worth £3.84 trillion. Nor a labour force with 74.9% in employment, that would be silly!

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      • P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Norwegian living in Denmark. I moved from Norway because everyone was just gaming, but I wanted to go to gigs, so I moved. Turns out everyone games in Denmark all the time too! It must be why the Northern European countries score so high in the happiness rating: all we do is game all day. It’s not like these countries have any money, especially Norway.

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    • xavier_berthiaume@jlai.lu ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In Québec we all own a state mandated PS5 (no Xbox’s allowed, that would be illegal) and play a variety of Fifa, Marvel Heroes and Valorant because it’s said to sharpen our skills and better society. Many women knock on my door saying they want me to grant them children, but knowing that my KDA might suffer from their demands I know not to give in, and to instead keep grinding until my next government granted dialysis appointment. Mon dieu que j’aime le Québec 🙏

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      • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’ve been on the waiting list for my PS5 for the past four years. Just like my family doctor.

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    • loomy@lemy.lol ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      sounds nice tbh

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Exactly.

      Even before computers, we Indians were happily playing Chess until Mughals invaded us.

      And then we showed them Chess, got them hooked, and then Brits invaded us.

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    • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I couldn't possibly do both things!

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  • buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Says the asshole mooching off the gold standard free healthcare given to congressmen.

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  • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can’t wait to pay for groceries with my free healthcare.

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  • ThatGirlKylie@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is just the “violent video games make people violent” argument from the 90s and 00s. Fear mongering at its core.

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    • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “These violent games make you violent!” “These cozy games make people lazy!”

      Sometimes I think they just complain because it’s a fetish for them.

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      • ThatGirlKylie@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That darn avocado toast!

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  • don@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Another boomer fucking idiot saying idiot fucking boomer shit because idiot fucking boomers voted like boomer fucking idiots.

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    • raynethackery@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      He’s fucking Genx, my generation. I hate every GenXer that sold out. Now that I’ve gotten that out of my system, remember we are fighting class warfare. Don’t let them divide us along generational lines. My good friend is a Boomer and is as liberal as can be. My two coworkers are GenX and both voted for Trump.

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      • don@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m also genx (xennial if it matters) and I’m referring to the boomer mindset, not the baby boomer generation. There are zoomers who voted for the current fascist regime and baby boomers who voted Harris. I hate generational warfare too, but “boomer” is a convenient term for an appalling mindset that can infect anyone, regardless of generation.

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  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lmfao what free healthcare?

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Seriously. I’d love some free healthcare.

      I’d probably be able to be more functional if I had proper healthcare.

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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The argument is utterly stupid.

    Ignoring that the it’s building on a fantasy reality for the moment. Even if you had free healthcare, and if only the financial costs of survival motivated people to get jobs, then the other costs of living, like for food and shelter, would still provide that motivation.

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    • impetchewus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Um also, can I get some of that free healthcare? Cuz I have NEVER received free healthcare in my life!

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  • iMastari@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I only play computer games after I get home from working hard all day.

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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The problem is that voters are so damn stupid that someone can make a statement like this without being interrogated.

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    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or the media will be like “Yeah, that makes sense” and will not push back.

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      • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah they just move on and don’t even call out the lie. Then people see it and assume it’s true

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    • LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Enhanced interrogation?

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The same old “welfare queen” argument again.

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  • rozodru@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    working where exactly? working on a farm that will pay you minimum wage, if that? oh OH I know working in the tech sector where it’s now and has been for the past couple years an absolute nightmare to find a job in.

    There are NO jobs out there that will pay for the current cost of living and the ones that COULD aren’t hiring, and if anything, are laying people off. And yeah, these unemployed young men are TOTALLY playing videogames that now cost $80 a pop paid via a job they don’t have.

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      BTW Steam Sumner sale is going on right now, Robocop for 5 bucks for the win! Id buy that for 5 dollars.

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    • FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      U ok?

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      • rozodru@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m fine, are you?

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      • Appleseuss@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Are you?

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      • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        He is.

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    • wabasso@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Btw is $80 actually up from the oughts and 10s? I’ve had $80 as the price for the latest AAA game in my head forever and am continually surprised it hasn’t changed.

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      • vxx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Are you from canada?

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  • Tetragrade@leminal.space ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    First they came for the gamers, and I did not speak out, because I was focusing busy hitting a sick 360° quickscope on Angel City.

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  • mcange@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Free healthcare?

    Image

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  • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    says some rich asshole who probably hasn’t worked a day in his life, living off dividends and bribe money

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And the healthcare Congress provides.

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  • PresidentCamacho@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    claims mouthpiece of the medical insurance industry

    FTFY

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  • samlan@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Shit, they’re on to me.

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  • Dogiedog64@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Us this Free Healthcare in the room with us now, you miserable ghoul?

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  • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What free healthcare?

    Young men have to jump through the most hoops to get state level health insurance.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Or, what if their healthcare continued to be free so they wouldn’t have an incentive to find a way to live on $700 month?

    I know one of those young men playing video games, and he REALLY wants a job, but no matter how he works the math, the medication that keeps him alive costs more than what he’d make. So, it’s budget around permanent poverty or die.

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    • Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Same reason I’ve been unemployed for a long while, my disability and medicare covers so much of my costs that working would likely result in less money in my pocket.

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      • HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        What are you going to do after all this is over, and it’s either even harder to get or just completely gone? Im sorry you have to go through any of this…

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    • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’d have to have free healthcare in the first place…

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That does make sense considering every other developed country has free healthcare and literally 100% of there young men spend every waking hour playing video games.

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    • Gibibit@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It does make sense because I break my legs regularly playing video games, putting a huge strain on public healthcare.

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      • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’re probably holding your controller wrong.

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    • BleatingZombie@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It also makes sense considering I eat Prozac for dinner and live under a shelter made of BandAids

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  • ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh god they’ve been shitting on video games since pinball. Get some new lines bro

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    • wabasso@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They should control video games like they control guns.

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He has no idea what the medicare requirements are, does he?

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    • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      His job is to spread lies and fear, so no reason for him to say something different, if he would know reality…

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