Yes, in a way. My understanding is that in the US instead of giving less fortunate people the money to buy what they need they get given tokens which can only be used for specific types of items. Obviously it’d be a lot cheaper to skip that extra admin cost and give the money directly instead of maintaining an entirely separate type of currency, but you can’t trust those filthy poors to know what they need. And hygiene products are one thing they don’t need, apparently.
The name is old, it used to be actual stamps in a booklet. It’s a restricted use debit card now. So you can buy eggs with it but not a music CD. Still pretty degrading.
What is a food card, and food stamps? Is this some kind of US-only dystopia?
Yes, in a way. My understanding is that in the US instead of giving less fortunate people the money to buy what they need they get given tokens which can only be used for specific types of items. Obviously it’d be a lot cheaper to skip that extra admin cost and give the money directly instead of maintaining an entirely separate type of currency, but you can’t trust those filthy poors to know what they need. And hygiene products are one thing they don’t need, apparently.
The name is old, it used to be actual stamps in a booklet. It’s a restricted use debit card now. So you can buy eggs with it but not a music CD. Still pretty degrading.