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@yon It wasn't easy but I was a weird kid. I was more worried for my dog and my stuff, and like I said, I can adapt easily, so at the time I was just seeing it more as some sort of mixed exciting time. I heard it stopped being a thing once Maria hit (which, you know, makes sense why), but it used to be pretty common in Puerto Rico that when we'd get a hurricane warning, to prepare, right but also to basically dance and make fun of the fact that a hurricane is coming LOL. Dark humor~

I do get angry when I see things that Shouldn't Be A Thing. I don't know if it's still there, I haven't been there since Covid started but my local mall the past few years had a machine that basically simulated how a hurricane was and felt. For the purposes of entertainment. :mewfacepalm: For a state that suffers from tornadoes (and has had its share of flooding), I really couldn't understand why anyone would have had this machine in their place of commerce. Few people used it, but I always made sure to stare at them with the evil eye :p The few times I am rude on purpose...

And don't worry, that explanation makes perfect sense. I agree! It took us longer to recuperate due to no help from the government, even though we were also theoretically "safe" from no sudden additional losses taken from having to rebuild. It's funny because then when I went to university, I wasn't qualified for scholarships because my father made too much. Except he was retired, wasn't working anymore and we had spent way too much money moving to the US alone, before getting ourselves settled in. And that's before getting materials and books for university. While we could handle it and I did have some grants at least thanks to my high school record, it still was an effort, you know? (I ended up getting scholarships around my 3rd or 4th year lol)

A sliding scale would absolutely be much more fair. For example, sure, my family with the sliding scale maybe gets idk only 100 bucks. But at least it's a 100 bucks! (I'm using money here as an example of the sliding scale, could be anything.) We need to help everyone affected, because everyone *was* affected.

@naan Sometimes I swear some politicians design these programs with no other intention other than to enrage the middle class. Or rather that is quite plausible.

Reminds me of back home. Instead of a tax deduction (<censored angry words here>) if you have children under 18 the parents simply get a monthly amount of money. Meant to help with all the things a child need. Simples.

Now people get angry that those that have more money also get this money. Those with an IQ above their shoe size points out that it would cost more to have a check.

People are irrational against their own interest sadly. :(

And it seems you picked up on the idea, good. Kind of comes back to why I fully believe that UBI would solve so many issues in society for 99% of people. Plus it would consolidate a lot of social programs so they would be a lot easier to run. Everyone gets money every 14 days. Done:) Same reason why Apple iTunes songs cost 99cents when they launched. It costs a fortune to have individual pricing. :)

And for the record when I say UBI I don’t talk about those anemic $1600/year things.