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         |  ijonspeches
             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-01-12 07:15 [#02631930] Points: 8089 Status: Regular | Show recordbag
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 | cash only!! need money, cant use banks or paypal.
 grapeful for any suggestions.
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         |  RussellDust
             on 2024-01-12 12:26 [#02631932] Points: 16155 Status: Lurker
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 | You know where this is going don’t you? 
 
 
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         |  RussellDust
             on 2024-01-12 12:27 [#02631933] Points: 16155 Status: Lurker
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 | I guess make sure they wear a condom. 
 
 
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         |  Wolfslice
             from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2024-01-12 12:39 [#02631937] Points: 5097 Status: Lurker
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 | learn to count cards and play blackjack? 
 
 
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         |  Wolfslice
             from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2024-01-12 12:41 [#02631938] Points: 5097 Status: Lurker
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 | maybe less safe but slip on some stairs and collect the disability
 
 
 
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         |  ijonspeches
             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-01-12 15:21 [#02631947] Points: 8089 Status: Regular | Followup to RussellDust: #02631933 | Show recordbag
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 | then id only have to watch out for cops, robbers and the organized crime. but id take any suggestions really.
 
 
 
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         |  ijonspeches
             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-01-12 15:22 [#02631948] Points: 8089 Status: Regular | Followup to Wolfslice: #02631938 | Show recordbag
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 | im already sort of disabled, dont want to make it any worse. 
 
 
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         |  ijonspeches
             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-01-12 15:23 [#02631949] Points: 8089 Status: Regular | Followup to Wolfslice: #02631937 | Show recordbag
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 | only with a brain uprade and faster legs. 
 
 
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         |  ijonspeches
             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-01-12 15:27 [#02631950] Points: 8089 Status: Regular | Show recordbag
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 | it would have to be something i can do or sell in the limited free time i have. since i already have a job.
 
 
 
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         |  ijonspeches
             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-01-12 15:29 [#02631951] Points: 8089 Status: Regular | Followup to ijonspeches: #02631948 | Show recordbag
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 | now there is a lot of frost these days and many people dont secure their pedestrian walks with salt and gravel. but
 nooo.
 
 
 
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         |  obara
             from Utrecht on 2024-01-12 20:35 [#02631952] Points: 19430 Status: Regular
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 | get another job ? dunno how disabled you are :) and how many another jobs German work system allows. Good luck:]
 
 
 
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         |  ijonspeches
             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-01-13 09:22 [#02631963] Points: 8089 Status: Regular | Followup to obara: #02631952 | Show recordbag
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 | thats the tricky part. im not capable of working full time.
 that would be 38,5 min. per week.
 in reality more like 42+ per week in germany.
 by international standards thats low.
 but im not entirely disabled and im capable of working
 20 hrs. per week all year and be good.
 i do work every week day, 10-20 hours a week.
 which earns 520€ tax free, so i get additional welfare.
 about the same amount and that works great.
 as long as i dont get into debt.
 however if i earned any more,
 id only be able to keep 20 ct per any additional euro,
 and 10 ct every euro exceeding 600 total income.
 that may include selling stuff on the internet,
 like bandcamp, e-bay if you resell stuff
 and basically any bank transfers.
 so, once in debt there is hardly any way
 to get out of it.
 it gets even worse when you live with a
 partially disabled partner aswell.
 because if one of us would earn a minimum wage part time
 job around 1300, the state would deduct any welfare for the
 partner.
 so, lets say i earned too much in one month and would lose
 welfare,
 then id have to pay back parts of health insurance, pay
 taxes and my partner would receive less welfare. meaning
 that instead of having a combined income of 2000+ euros
 (incl. welf.) wed end up only having about half of that.
 after cost of living we usually have about 100€ each for
 saving and fun.
 so savings arent there. unless you find other ways.
 im grateful for our system, it has a few flaws though.
 
 
 
 
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         |  ijonspeches
             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-01-13 09:27 [#02631964] Points: 8089 Status: Regular | Show recordbag
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 | tldr: -cannot keep any additional income.
 -cant work enough to have more than combined
 job and welfare.
 -LAZY_TITLE
 
 
 
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         |  big
             from lsg on 2024-01-13 12:09 [#02631965] Points: 24091 Status: Lurker | Show recordbag
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 | it's hard. many fall outside what the system the demands. the system could be worse, as you say, but also it should be
 way better (imo, i'm for socialism)
 
 myself, i barely keep up with the demands, but do make
 enough money. i'm privileged, i can say, though i do try to
 give back to society
 
 i don't know good ways to make some extra money. legal ways
 pay very little (and there's the risk that you lose
 welfare). (am not knowledgeable on less legal ways)
 
 best i can think of is finding mutual aid kind of things:
 collectives that cook together and buy food in bulk for that
 
 
 
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         |  big
             from lsg on 2024-01-13 12:11 [#02631966] Points: 24091 Status: Lurker | Followup to big: #02631965 | Show recordbag
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 | and those aid things could also possibly help with overcoming difficulties stemming from disabilities
 
 this sort of stuff i know more from theory than that i've
 dabbled into them myself. thought i've been involved in
 action work, that also values taking care of each other
 
 
 
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         |  ijonspeches
             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-01-14 17:30 [#02631971] Points: 8089 Status: Regular | Followup to big: #02631965 | Show recordbag
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 | thx for the heads up, sharing and saving money would be helping.
 just hope ill get the usual support. its highly unusual,
 not having received any funds for 2,5 months and going.
 not a good sign, but fingers crossed..
 
 
 
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         |  big
             from lsg on 2024-01-15 07:05 [#02631973] Points: 24091 Status: Lurker | Followup to ijonspeches: #02631971 | Show recordbag
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 | you're literally in a precarious situation 
 who knows, possibly there's also funds for specific things,
 like for when you need a new washer or something (besides
 not-funds, but orgs, that give free food)
 
 
 
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         |  ijonspeches
             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-01-15 07:31 [#02631974] Points: 8089 Status: Regular | Followup to big: #02631973 | Show recordbag
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 | you can get these funds, but one time only when you move out.
 never needed any of that, because my family hooked me up
 with used stove, fridge and washing machine back when i
 moved out.
 after that you are supposed to build your own safety funds
 to replace broken household equipment. but there is goodwill
 places to get all those for 100€ each. usually really old
 stuff but its functional and thats what matters. then there
 is ads. we buy everything from ads, dirt cheap.
 and we have everything, im more afraid, that something went
 wrong and id have to pay back thousands, because of
 bureaucracy and unfair stupid fines.
 
 
 
 
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         |  ijonspeches
             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-01-15 07:50 [#02631975] Points: 8089 Status: Regular | Show recordbag
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 | when my wife (then gf) had to apply for welfare she had to go to two different institutions. jobcenter and welfare
 center, which is mandatory if you lose your job. she got a
 job second month of receiving a combination of welfare and
 unemployment support (because unemployment support is only a
 third of what your previous job was (around 960€)
 immediately she gave notice of her new job and gave a copy
 of her contract to the welfare center. now the 100€ from
 unemployemnt benefits from jobcenter arent needed anymore.
 the very next month one or both institutions notice she was
 "overfunded" 100€ and it was deducted and paid back
 immediately. she also gave a copy of her new contract to
 jobcenter. the trainee at jobcenter refused to stamp her
 contract as acknowledgement of reception, claiming it has a
 name on the stamp and she doesnt want that or sth.
 
 one full year later she received a letter accusing her of
 fraud over that 100€. she was supposed to explain herself
 on the matter and or pay a fine, which could be up to a few
 thousand €.
 we spent months explaining that and still ended up paying a
 150€ fine almost 3 years later. in between we had applied
 for a lawyer and took lots of paid support. huge waste of
 tax money and we lived in fear and anger over sth, because
 the two institutions dont work together and a delayed
 document.
 
 
 
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         |  ijonspeches
             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-02-06 21:47 [#02632333] Points: 8089 Status: Regular | Show recordbag
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 | Happy to say, it all turned out well and i can buy vine eeels.
 
 
 
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         |  big
             from lsg on 2024-02-07 04:54 [#02632341] Points: 24091 Status: Lurker | Followup to ijonspeches: #02632333 | Show recordbag
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 | woop 
 
 
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         |  big
             from lsg on 2024-02-07 04:56 [#02632342] Points: 24091 Status: Lurker | Followup to ijonspeches: #02631975 | Show recordbag
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 | this happens in the Netherlands as well. one such case, the 'Dutch childcare benefits scandal' hit thousands of people and so was able to
 become a national scandal. but these systems will always
 turn into this, when there isn't strong, more leftwing,
 opposition (not just politically, but throughout society)
 
 
 
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         |  ijonspeches
             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-02-07 07:32 [#02632345] Points: 8089 Status: Regular | Followup to big: #02632342 | Show recordbag
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 | wow, havent heard about that one.juzmkejhsdgjfdkrtgijrfjhrfcifufikfic
 excuse me, wife was typing, lol
 
 
 
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         |  ijonspeches
             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-02-07 07:42 [#02632346] Points: 8089 Status: Regular | Followup to big: #02632342 | Show recordbag
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 | the idea to support only those in need is right, but it usually is complicated.
 some say its institutional that it is that complicated.
 not sure about this one, but it makes sense for the
 government to be measured in the money in and out. now,
 beaurocracy and jobs behind welfare systems and everything
 involved unemployment are way too overcumbed and expensive
 aswell.
 the success rate of putting people into work with it is more
 than questionable. especially considering that huge parts of
 beneficiants are chronically ill or disabled.
 
 
 
 
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         |  ijonspeches
             from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-02-07 08:02 [#02632348] Points: 8089 Status: Regular | Show recordbag
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 | there is the idea of having a free income of about a 1000€.
 many people have been calculating this back and forth.
 my bank and the ceo of a nationwide drugstore amongst other
 skilled people estimate it would cost the state a billion to
 support every german citizen with a 1000€, but effectively
 that sum shrinks down to 250 million € on the household,
 because it is taxable income for those who earn more than
 minimum. then low income families and persons would benefit
 greatly and would be free to choose what they want to do for
 a living instead of being forced to do bullshit jobs. some
 people argue, no one would work anymore, but thats bullshit,
 you would definitely have to do something in addition,
 because hardly anyone can live on a 1000€ here.
 out of all persons i know no one would be happy with living
 on a 1000€.
 so you would save many many millions in beaurocracy, no one
 would have to live in fear. people could be employed or
 choose to do work they like. it would greatly increase the
 umber of self employed people in startups and it would
 greatly decrease the number of job related illness in the
 country, which could effectively decrease health care cost.
 i still consider this a radical approach with lots of hidden
 variables, but i truly believe that its worth a shot. is
 this discussed in your countries aswell?
 
 
 
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         |  steve mcqueen
             from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2024-02-12 20:43 [#02632544] Points: 6639 Status: Regular
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 | whilst reading your post i had a strong synaesthetic reminder of the crumble atop the blueberry crumble that i
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         |  steve mcqueen
             from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2024-02-16 20:06 [#02632630] Points: 6639 Status: Regular
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 | ok srs everyone is doing this. like /everyone/.... what can you do
 that will be different? sit down and have a good long hard
 think about it, take your time.
 
 otherwise it is pennies, or basically stupid hours for what
 you could get at a basic job with constant cat'n'mouse type
 optimisation required.... so do yourself a favour and use
 your imagination.
 
 
 
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         |  steve mcqueen
             from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2024-02-16 20:10 [#02632631] Points: 6639 Status: Regular
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 | >>UBI or you could just sign on, whatever
 
 
 
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