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by AnthonyMouse 1032 days ago
> Every "class" of disability is not equal and so we shouldn't treat them exactly the same.

You're making the argument for this dystopia:

https://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

The point of government assistance isn't to make everyone the same, it's to provide a baseline. Someone in such a poor state that they can't work at all still gets a roof over their head.

Someone else can use the money to go to college or start a business, and society has an interest in promoting that because it yields returns. There is even an argument for investing more in people with more potential.

But in both cases the government is terrible at doing the evaluation as a result of politics and bureaucracy, so the right answer is for everyone to get the same.