Re: Interesting thread.

Tiggity® · 2023-09-29T12:14:48.030Z

Huge increases in disability benefits, and also in time lost from work due to disability, among working people in the US. The increase is minimal among those "not employed", as they are already getting disability, or otherwise have found a way to subsist. But the numbers from working people is a staggering number. We're talking 11 standard deviations here. Similar trends have been noted in the UK and other developed nations. You can argue it's vaccines, or the virus, or liberals (who have not done anything new to promote this) but it is a very real thing, regardless of the cause. https://twitter.com/DowdEdward/status/1707466788030804323

Interesting thread.

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Sep 29, 2023, 8:34 AM

People are increasingly gaming the system and increasingly are unashamed of doing so. When I was still working, I had patients get angry for not writing them a letter supporting their unsupportable claim of a disability and even ask for a letter supporting handicapped parking when they were able bodied.

The VA is maddening how they hand out service connected disability money for some really trivial stuff and then on the other hand deny a deserving veteran his or her valid claim.

My wife's brother was a chemical engineer but punched out years before retirement age on disability for hearing loss. He truly does have a hearing deficit, wears hearing aids, but is fully capable of conversing on the phone ad nauseam and engaging in conversation. Nonetheless, he punched out, collected his check and merrily ran multiple rental properties wherein he could miraculously communicate with his tenants.

Perhaps it's got something to do with long COVID, but if the safety net is wide, I think a lot of folks have no qualms about sitting on their ### and taking a check.

Sadly, there are many deserving folks who need aid and I remember one in particular, injured on the job, that I had to testify that he was in no way faking his injuries. He had to fight like hell to get what was due to him from a terrible job related accident.

I'm gonna vote that as a collective, we're more selfish, more into me and not afraid of any stigma that used to be associated with idleness.