Comment by pclmulqdq
3 hours ago
Many working-class families in NYC have several "welfare kings/queens" who have little or no income, claiming huge benefits packages from the city, and a few people with $150-300k/year union jobs who buy the luxury goods for the whole clan. The necessities for the high-earners are generally also covered by those benefits packages in the form of shared meals and housing. As a result, everyone in the group lives a pretty middle-class life despite most of the clan being poor on paper. As far as I can tell, this is how a lot of the New York working class survives.
Not even an LLM could hallucinate this.
take your asshole misinformation talking points back to 2005 please. they're not relevant or welcomed here
You have no idea what you're talking about
I dated someone in one of these families for a very long time, so I'm pretty sure I do know how that family system and the surrounding community operates. This sort of "family commune" living arrangement is very common in lower-income communities with family-oriented cultures (eg working-class hispanic, italian, african american communities), and the tax code amplifies its effectiveness.