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   alex :disabled_knife: (alex@godforsaken.website)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 23:25:59 JST alex :disabled_knife:

   it's astounding to me about how every conversation about disability benefits has to include a disclaimer to the effect of "of course there's undoubtedly some fraudsters taking advantage of the system". like: this is no more true of benefits than it is of any other system? statistically benefits fraud is vanishingly low. and yet no one feels compelled to add this admonitory caveat to any discussion of banking, or employment, or business management, or governance, or or or

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     alex :disabled_knife: (alex@godforsaken.website)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 23:26:11 JST alex :disabled_knife:

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     i think i'm going to start adding this caveat to any discussion pertaining to finance actually. while i've no doubt that the majority of bankers are upstanding rule-abiders, there's no doubt a determined minority of them are "taking the mickey" and "pilfering from the public purse". but we should of course support the good bankers, who simply can't help their circumstances.