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by kaluga 199 days ago
The real issue isn’t just the cliffs themselves — it’s that our welfare system is a set of disconnected programs that interact like poorly designed APIs. For people with zero margin for error, even a small income change can trigger huge losses in healthcare, childcare, or housing.

We ended up with a system that’s expensive, complicated, and psychologically brutal — and still fails to do what it was designed to do.

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Almost as if it was designed this way on purpose