The obvious conclusion that “many disabled people are rejected for benefits and end up dying without any basic income for food, shelter, and medicine”
Is not “it’s because of fakers. Fakers gaming the system are to blame”
It’s:
The people who are in charge of determining who’s disabled enough to need benefits are very, very bad at figuring out who’s disabled and who isn’t.
And from repeated reports from people who have gone through the process, and people who used to work in these capacities, for the most part, they don’t even bother to try to figure out who’s disabled or not. They fulfill a minimum quota and then reject everyone else indiscriminately. They use superficial details about the applicant’s appearance or speech. They use incredibly stupid and unscientific tests like making you recite “car, balloon, flag,” after a five minute conversation to determine if you have “real” memory issues, instead of devising tests that demonstrate how your memory issues would affect you in a work setting.
Blaming fakers isn’t doing anything for me. Stricter and undiscerning measures to keep fakers out is hurting disabled people, not fakers themselves. Punishing fakers is not making my life better. People who are actually trained to understand disability would make my life better.
Yes, having been on the receiving end this is 100% exactly precisely how it works. And this is why there is no alternative to UBI; because nobody the fuck is able to tell the “deserving” from the “undeserving” and UBI is the only thing that doesn’t either fuck up the incentives horribly for everyone, or screw over those who don’t fit the stereotypes of “deservingness”.
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