Disability benefits to be cut "ruthlessly" as keeping disabled people alive is a "waste" of money, says UK government.

Even from a capitalist growth perspective it is not 'waste', giving disabled people money allows them to spend it on stuff. And poor disabled people are likely to spend almost all they receive.

Even if you were to accept fascist "useless eaters" rhetoric as true, taking care of people who can't provide for themselves is kind of the point of society. If we can't do that, then what's the point? Might as well burn it all down and return to monkey.

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This shit makes me sick. Most of my friends have mental disabilities and some have physical disabilities. I'm friends with someone that is wheel chair bound, and has to work 2 jobs because her disability checks don't pay enough and she needs assistance. She can't even get married if she wanted to because the government will cut her disability payments. She deserves a better life but is stuck in this shitty system.

I thought this was a Trump policy, turns out it's Starmer

what the fuck were they even fighting about in the world wars?

FFS just legalise euthanasia already. I'd rather get a quick injection than starve to death out on the streets. Even the Nazis were kinder to the disabled, gassing them to death quickly.

My brother made a good point that they won't legalize euthanasia (in particular for mental ill ess like depression) because they're afraid too many people will decide to take that option, especially as capitalism continues to fail. Too many people taking that option means nobody to clean toilets for the rich, as the dumbass Ozzy Osbourne daughter put it

The money model, best articulated in Russell’s 1998 book, Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract, posits that disabled people are not, as they are often framed in dominant culture, a “burden to society,” but are actually a valuable resource. As Russell explains: “…persons who do not offer a body which will enhance profitmaking as laborers are used to shore up US capitalism by other means.” Disabled people are a nexus around which the capacity for surplus labor power can be built (often financed in part by federal money)—whole sectors of our economy have sprung forth from the money model, which has normalized the commodification of things, systems, and places that maintain disabled bodies in pursuit of squeezing profit from the money which passes through disabled people towards their survival and care. For example, nursing homes, Russell argued, are not places of rest and comfort, but a strategy for commodifying the “least productive” so that they can both be “made of use to the economic order” and free up the labor supply of those who love and wish to care for them. This system benefits neither the workers nor disabled people, only what Russell called the “owning class.” US disability policy, instead of being oriented around supporting the needs of disabled people, sanctions and facilitates the capitalist capture of nearly all aspects of disablement, impairment, chronic illness, and disability, including the way that “reasonable accommodations” are commodified (as explored by Ruth Colker in her essay for this symposium).

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“Muh population decline. We need the population to grow! But also let’s do eugenics and cull people with disabilities! Law of the jungle baby!”

It is kind of shocking to me how the ruling class pretends it doesn't understand what a lucrative business disability has always been and how the service sector around it is one of the remaining things keeping capitalism standing in the West.

"Have you tried 'kill all the poor'?" (cw: csa, ablist slur)

Where does it specifically mention disabled people? Welfare includes unemployment benefits.