The elderly waitress cannot retire as her £703 monthly Social Security cheques don't cover the bills. A generous woman recently set up a GoFundMe account and plans to surprise the 81-year-old with the donations so that she can finally retire.
The part that is truly frustrating is that, the same people who will empty their pockets for (often dubious) charities, will cry about taxes and smear social programs (targeting the same exact issues) as “handouts”.
They are not suffering cognitive dissonance, you are in trying to understand them.
Rush Limbaugh is known to tip 50% at restaurants, but flies into a broadcast tirade if even half that dollar amount is deducted from his paycheck by “The Government.” That’s despite the fact that the money helps that very same single mom he had no problem tipping in her capacity as a waitress.
What is the Monkeysphere explains much of this thought, and describes how fucked we humans are in large groups. (OLD article and the formatting screwed, read it anyway.)
I hate these “and then people pitched in to help” stories. The only story here is the system failed her. Just like it’s going to for many of us.
The part that is truly frustrating is that, the same people who will empty their pockets for (often dubious) charities, will cry about taxes and smear social programs (targeting the same exact issues) as “handouts”.
The cognitive dissonance is unreal.
Absolutely. Like the church goers who donate to a church program and vote against social programs.
They are not suffering cognitive dissonance, you are in trying to understand them.
What is the Monkeysphere explains much of this thought, and describes how fucked we humans are in large groups. (OLD article and the formatting screwed, read it anyway.)
These are known as “feel-good feel-bad” stories.
https://thinkprogress.org/do-the-impossible-never-complain-live-the-dream-the-dark-morals-of-todays-feel-good-stories-63b38b4a4953/
And then we did social welfare because we hate democrats.