Comment by imperfect_light 4 days ago
Reminds me of the famous Reagan "welfare queen" story about someone showing up in Cadillac to use their food stamps. Did it happen, probably. Is it widespread, it is representative of most people on food stamps. Of course not.
Same situation here. Of course it's happened, some people have taken advantage of remote work. So what's the manager's excuse for not catching this?
Reagan was taking it mostly from a single case, about which he then made up a bunch of shit, because reality wasn’t bad enough for him:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Taylor
He also liked to imply that people living large on welfare & benefits fraud (which, already not really a great description of what was going on even in this exemplar case) was widespread and not, you know, a thing he knew about from a single case because the woman was caught and charged with crimes. What an asshole (Reagan, I mean—well, her too, I suppose).
Basically this lady was committing fraud in just about every possible way she had access to, and welfare was just one of them. She then, maybe, kept doing it after release from prison, if you read between the lines a little (though mostly estate and insurance fraud, not welfare, if she was still committing fraud)
> Reagan "welfare queen" story about someone showing up in Cadillac to use their food stamps. Did it happen, probably.
Real person, but absolutely not representative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Taylor