A 21-year-old man receiving welfare benefits said， “I don’t even know what my parents look like．” He talked about his life so far， including life in an orphanage and on the streets．
0001@Old Man Friends Club ★.Jul. 25, 2024 (Thu) 10:45:34.37ID:INwb/Fmc9
[Omitted] ●Receiving welfare at age 21 Mori Shota (pseudonym, 21 years old) [Current situation] Receiving welfare [Main source of income] Only welfare payments [Current monthly income] Approximately 130,000 yen Mori Shota (pseudonym, 21 years old), who lives in an 8-tatami one-room apartment in the Tokyo metropolitan area, is receiving 130,000 yen in welfare payments at a young age. “To be honest, living on welfare is easy. The rent here is 52,000 yen, so I live on just under 80,000 yen a month. “I haven’t worked for about a year now.” Has a complicated upbringing. He grew up in an orphanage so he doesn’t know his parents. “I actually wanted to go to college. But you have to leave the facility at 18. It was practically impossible to cover all the living expenses and tuition fees, so I gave up,” he said, lowering his gaze. After leaving the facility, he enrolled in a vocational training school but dropped out after six months. After that, he worked part-time at restaurants and assembling furniture. “Two years ago, when I was working the hardest, there were times when I worked 31 days in a row and earned 360,000 yen a month. I didn’t know people could fall this low…” ● Stress led to him becoming addicted to supporting idols… I got into supporting idols as a way to relieve stress. He became so absorbed in it that he fell behind on not only his rent but also his utility bills, and moved out of his apartment without permission a year ago. After being forced to live on the streets for six months, he ended up on welfare. “At first I was receiving benefits in a different area, but the company that helped me with my application seemed to be running a poverty-stricken business, and after the service fees were deducted I was left with only 10,000 to 20,000 yen a month. Naturally, I was unhappy at first, but once I got used to surfing the internet all day and having three meals a day, I didn’t care anymore… I started to feel scared, so I started looking for rental properties that I could sign a contract with directly.” But I still had trouble managing money. By the end of the month, they have no welfare payments left and are forced to borrow money from friends and pay it back the following month, so they are in a vicious cycle. “I have a habit of jumping ship, so when I’m stuck with work and bills, I think, ’This is bothersome’ and ’I want to run away.’ Being on welfare makes you feel like you can survive without working, so in my case it backfired. Once you get comfortable, it’s hard to get out of it. I would like to have a job within a year, but…” Continued on Yahoo News Nikkan Spa 2024/07/25 6:53.
>>3 From that, you pay for gas, electricity, water, communication, and food. And neighborhood association fees are also basically included in the rent.
It’s healthier for a country to have lots of factories where people can start working after graduating high school, and even if they’re not rich, they can still fall in love, get married, have children, and buy a car and a house.
It may be a problem with the social environment or parents, or it may be personal responsibility. I think there’s some truth to both sides. However, I believe that emphasizing personal responsibility will lead to more popularity of “self-made stories” and “biographies of great people,” and the economy will improve. Emphasis on government responsibility leads to stronger left-wing forces, more regulations, higher taxes, greater government powers, and suppression of people’s freedoms.
It’s not very convincing when someone who hasn’t worked for a year and is saying that living on welfare is honestly easy says they wanted to go to university.
I’ve been unemployed for years and have been living off my savings, but if I went and asked for welfare, would they give me one? I don’t want to reduce my savings, so I live a more frugal life than I would on welfare.
>>28 I guess people with wealth are the ones complaining about welfare. If you think about it normally, it’s only natural that you’d be told to use your wealth first.
Poverty is hereditary, but if you have to pay your smartphone bill, electricity, gas, water, management fees, and ward fees, you can’t even smoke a cigarette.
I’m 28 and on welfare. Someone from the welfare department recommended that I apply for welfare, so I received it. Because I have a second-class mental disability, not only am I not told to work, but my case worker even tells me not to work because I’m sick.
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