That's very sweet, and I'm glad you do it, though I'm likewise unsure why most charity should be degrading, or what kind of make-work would be generally fulfilling — or whether exemption from minimum-wage so more people wouldn't have to do make-work but could do real work at their own pace would be better.
That's very sweet, and I'm glad you do it, though I'm likewise unsure why most charity should be degrading, or what kind of make-work would be generally fulfilling — or whether exemption from minimum-wage so more people wouldn't have to do make-work but could do real work at their own pace would be better.
Granted, the disabled people I know tend not to be stupid, but skilled people with relapsing mental or physical problems for whom some form of disability fraud (getting paid for their skills when they can, but not reporting it if they can't get by without disability benefits) might serve their dignity (pride in using real skills to provide someone else a net benefit rewarded with pay) better than "honest" make-work would. It does seems reasonable to suppose, though, that others might benefit more from the steadiness a more "make-work-y" job might provide.
I know of landlords whose own experience caring for disabled family means they look the other way when their building managers hire the intermittently-sane to help them commit disability fraud — a chance to use real skills for real pay during their lucid months, knowing psychiatric care would disappear altogether if steady benefits did. I've heard of 14(c) exemptions both exploiting the disabled and greatly enriching their lives.
I have an instinctive horror of multiplying carve-out which themselves may be abused, and pessimism that supposed safeguards against idleness, fraud, and malingering, will succeed in punishing enough wrongdoing that they justify punishing those whose "wrong" is suffering ill-suited to carve-outs.
That's very sweet, and I'm glad you do it, though I'm likewise unsure why most charity should be degrading, or what kind of make-work would be generally fulfilling — or whether exemption from minimum-wage so more people wouldn't have to do make-work but could do real work at their own pace would be better.
Granted, the disabled people I know tend not to be stupid, but skilled people with relapsing mental or physical problems for whom some form of disability fraud (getting paid for their skills when they can, but not reporting it if they can't get by without disability benefits) might serve their dignity (pride in using real skills to provide someone else a net benefit rewarded with pay) better than "honest" make-work would. It does seems reasonable to suppose, though, that others might benefit more from the steadiness a more "make-work-y" job might provide.
I know of landlords whose own experience caring for disabled family means they look the other way when their building managers hire the intermittently-sane to help them commit disability fraud — a chance to use real skills for real pay during their lucid months, knowing psychiatric care would disappear altogether if steady benefits did. I've heard of 14(c) exemptions both exploiting the disabled and greatly enriching their lives.
I have an instinctive horror of multiplying carve-out which themselves may be abused, and pessimism that supposed safeguards against idleness, fraud, and malingering, will succeed in punishing enough wrongdoing that they justify punishing those whose "wrong" is suffering ill-suited to carve-outs.