I don’t think it’s crazy to say that people genuinely don’t like cost/convenience issues. But I agree that those attributable to helping the poor in some manner are better political kindling because it enrages some (misguided, disgusting) sense of justice regarding their supposed undeserving nature.

I don’t feel that really disagrees with what I’m saying, it’s just framing it different and showing how people directly hate the poor doing better and ALSO search for a way to attribute any minor cost/convenience issue to the poor being coddled in some manner.

If you want to argue that people are actually furious about a $2 fast food hike because they attribute it to “undeserving” workers making more via some mechanism (direct minimum wage increase, inflation due to increased social spending, etc.) - sure, very possible.

There are ideological “haters” as you say that just hate to see “undeserving” get something. But middle class also resents any minor cost or inconvenience growth with the heat of a thousand suns. That distance between classes that you note has both emotional and “practical” (if very petty) aspects

Will is being descriptive, not prescriptive - and he’s correct.

Sadly yes. Policy changes that help the poor typically result in minor cost or convenience consequences for the middle class, and the middle class fucking HATES that. Far too many people will gladly throw the poor under a series of busses if it keeps their fast food $2 cheaper.

Lame question but my ocd demands it - will these ship like actual tabloids and be rolled/ripped/etc from normal mail handling? Or will these be shipped in envelopes/mailers of some kind to protect them? Thanks!

To be clear, using ChatGPT and Gen AI is fraud. Imagine five years ago if you told a professor or employer you don’t know how to do your work so the computer did it for you 😒

Oh definitely. They also make you do lots of “free” labor like TAing classes (which can sometimes be you fully running classes). It’s not all bad, and it makes sense for the university to look for funding from the external groups that profit from academic research. But it’s faaar from a cushy gig.

I was a phd student at a prestigious university. Tuition + modest stipend were covered, and even then my advisor pushed us to apply for external fellowships to cover that so the university itself could stop.