What about employee perks like doing your laundry for you, cooking your meals, cleaning your house, and giving you a ride to work every day? Do those infantilize grown adults?
I think they'd both be pretty degrading, wouldn't they? One treats you like you're incapable of making purchasing decisions and the other treats you like you're incapable of using a vacuum.
> What about employee perks like doing your laundry for you, cooking your meals, cleaning your house, and giving you a ride to work every day? Do those infantilize grown adults?
None of those services are anything like the government managing a bank account for you. Anyone can decide they don't want those employee perks, someone on food stamps does not have much of a choice.
I've encountered plenty of food stamp recipients, including my own parents when I was younger, and I've yet to see someone be "infantilized" by the ability to afford food.
Maybe I'm misreading it, but I think the infantilization comes from giving special stamps that can only be used to buy things the State lets you, instead of the equivalent value in cash. Why can one buy a sugar-loaded soda but not a beer?
I guess what's considered food is up to opinion. I've seen countless people using food stamps for energy drinks and chips. While paying cash for their lotto and cigarillos.
How closely do you pay attention to people's payment method? An EBT card looks pretty much like a debit card. I definitely don't pay enough attention to notice what bank the person in front of me in line is using.
I suspect that unless you're working as a cashier, "countless people" is an exaggeration, and even if you are it's likely confirmation bias.
