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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

So my take is that there is a difference between saying "if you can't afford to feed your family, starve", and "if you can't afford a lifestyle that's decidedly much more expensive than that of most people, get a cheaper living".

TBH in my perfect world, you would get free room and board in high density housing for free without stigma, and you could work to get something better. Does saying "I don't want to pay to sustain people's expensive rural lifestyles, I'd rather the money would go to help more people for whom not getting help means starving instead of moving" make me a conservative?