In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2026/sep/17/australians-jobseeker-dying-in-poverty
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2026/sep/17/australians-jobseeker-dying-in-poverty
8 Comments
minty@aussie.zone · 15 pts · 7d
I think australians thinking is heading towards american levels of individualism. A lot australians have the same hatred towards the poor as americans do, and hating taxation aswell
arbilp3@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 7d
What if they actually want the poor to die? What if this is a silent war of attrition? Capitalist eugenics... The new human's worth is only measured by the wealth they accumulate and/or how well they play the compliance game...
RoseLemon@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 7d
Indeed. What if they actually want the poor to die? What if all our systems were silent systems of slow eugenics?
arbilp3@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 6d
Certainly looks that way.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 7d
it is a travesty but nearly everything we do is wrong headed, so no big surprises.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 7d
How many people were too sick to work so had to go on benefits?
What other risk factors are there?
It's a study that would be difficult to make .
But I definitely agree that poverty is bad for health.
brisk@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 7d
This is jobseeker. If there are people on it who can't work that's still a failing of the welfare system, albeit a different one.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 6d
oh I agree
not just a failure of government services but of the job market/economy