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Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman

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    I pay $60 (or whatever), pay for my data connection, and get to play my game literally for years. It’s one of the cheapest forms of entertainment around. I get tons of value out of my purchase, it reduces stress, I get a sense of challenge out of it, and for the amount I spent I get a lot pf return.

    Now if only health care were free. That’s just a bullshit statement and not even worth responding to. That said, In its current state it’s the opposite of video games. It’s expensive. The amount you put in is often not what you get out. It’s stressful.

    Maybe the only way it’s like games is that someone can pull the plug on you when it’s not profitable anymore.

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      That does make sense considering every other developed country has free healthcare and literally 100% of their young men spend every waking hour playing video games.

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        It’s not just a shitty disease…. It’s a shitty disease that the Social Security Administration really, REALLY does not like to pay out disability for. Mostly because, unless something has changed recently, it’s hard to prove that you actually have it because it defies easily quantifiable medical testing, among other things.

        So, it would be a curse on multiple levels!

        Source: I used to be an attorney who fought for people who had been denied benefits.

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        Thnx for this reply.

        Yes.

        I feel I just exist to be in pain.

        Mostly to feed my cats and love them. -.-

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          And? What's the problem with that? In an ideal society with present technology we can afford to feed and house literally everyone. Let artificial scarcity rule you no longer. Let the people play games, and when 'work'is no longer, the obligation of wages they wil do it willingly, happily, and with enjoyment. Or at least wnough of us will to feed all.

          So what if some get fed more than they work? I like helping people. We should have plenty to spare without the parasite class.

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            Just in case you forgot, getting rid of video games is part of Project 2025. Republicans have had a vendetta against them since Mortal Kombat came out in the arcades back in the 90s. And in some ways they have been against them since their very inception with Pong and Tetris.

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            Sounds about right.

            Project 2025: Fuck literally everything good in this world. Work to death and be forced to praise Jesus.

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              ...says guy who gets free healthcare and is paid by a public who he does nothing good for and billionaires who bribe him to hurt the public.

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                I've been on the waiting list for my PS5 for the past four years. Just like my family doctor.

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                Onestauquebecostiiiiiiii

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                  What healthcare?

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                  I must have been playing too many video games cuz I totally missed out on the free Healthcare. Can I still get some of that?

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                    I must have been playing too many video games cuz I totally missed out on the free Healthcare. Can I still get some of that?

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                    Have you tried just eating food? Every time I do that in games it heals me. 😛

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                      Why would anyone want to waste their life working for any of these exploitive cunts. I’d much rather play video games.

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                        That does make sense considering every other developed country has free healthcare and literally 100% of their young men spend every waking hour playing video games.

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                        It also makes sense considering I eat Prozac for dinner and live under a shelter made of BandAids

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                          *Used to get free healthcare.

                          Dunno how it is where you are, but bulk billing GPs just don't exist anymore in SA.

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                          It's getting harder but they are there.
                          But hey, if I break my leg and go to ER at a public hospital, even though I have to wait a shit load of hours, I won't pay anything when I walk out.

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                            Wait, you can eat heath care?

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                              It’s not just a shitty disease…. It’s a shitty disease that the Social Security Administration really, REALLY does not like to pay out disability for. Mostly because, unless something has changed recently, it’s hard to prove that you actually have it because it defies easily quantifiable medical testing, among other things.

                              So, it would be a curse on multiple levels!

                              Source: I used to be an attorney who fought for people who had been denied benefits.

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                              its not well recognized disease, and cant really be detected in tests, is subjective symptoms.

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                                or pretending that conversion therapy cured them, and addicted to possibly porn.

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                                • owenfromcanada@lemmy.caO [email protected]

                                  Can confirm. Here in Canada, nobody works. We all sit at home and play video games instead. There's no industry, no shops, no hospitals. Only video games.

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                                  I couldn't possibly do both things!

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                                  • remembertheapollo_@lemmy.worldR [email protected]

                                    I pay $60 (or whatever), pay for my data connection, and get to play my game literally for years. It’s one of the cheapest forms of entertainment around. I get tons of value out of my purchase, it reduces stress, I get a sense of challenge out of it, and for the amount I spent I get a lot pf return.

                                    Now if only health care were free. That’s just a bullshit statement and not even worth responding to. That said, In its current state it’s the opposite of video games. It’s expensive. The amount you put in is often not what you get out. It’s stressful.

                                    Maybe the only way it’s like games is that someone can pull the plug on you when it’s not profitable anymore.

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                                    Right? I feel bad that it's beautiful outside and we're all inside playing games and streaming TV, but every time we leave the house as a family, it ends up costing me at least $100.

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                                      What's an enormous brain he has, it's amazing that it fits in his itty bitty head.

                                      So living in the UK which has free healthcare I can tell everybody that it's super easy to do this.

                                      Obviously I don't have a job so I can't afford food, so I just starve myself until I nearly die, and then the NHS turn up and put me in one of those pokeball rehabilitation things and I'm good to go.

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                                        I thought they were breaking into your basement to tell you they won’t watch your kid and you still have to buy them health insurance

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                                          He has no idea what the medicare requirements are, does he?

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