>>24637> the bestExcept you have to live in a shithole, not have a car, eat Aldi-junk, use up all of your assets, and you can't save for retirement, so it means you will also be poor in your old age. You will have to live like some eternal student, except you are not a student anymore. You regress. You can only dismantle everything you have built in life, until it's all gone. Worse: everything your ancestors built will be dismantled, too. That wardrobe has been in the family through two world wars? Antiques, you are not allowed to have that, turn it into money. And they do make visits to check every closet and every drawer, to make sure there is nothing you hide. If they think you have too much or too good a quality of anything, it will have to be sold. If you have too many pots or too much cutlery, they will decide you don't really live alone and cut you to 0. What's too much? Arbitrary.
As for children, if you have any, you will be too poor to dress them in real clothes, feed them real food or give them an education beyond what is offered by the government. No music lessons, no skiing, and they'll have to eat junk food. Imagine feeding your children that shit Aldi-bread with some Aldi boiled sausage, and dressing them in track suites from Tako. Of course, they will have to go to a shit school with daily robberies and knife attacks, because you live in a shit place, and they will come home and talk like Turks, without articles, prepositions or cases. They adapt. If you have a daughter, she will start to wear a headscarf, and if you have a son, he will want to be circumcised.
It's a horror-movie.
The only way to survive on Bürgergeld is too have some undocumented side-hustle, to steal food from garbage containers, etc.
It's so much easier to have a job and know you make enough money to have a roof over your head and if 500g of black lentils are more expensive than the red lentils, it doesn't bother you, you can just buy black lentils. And you don't have to buy that god-awful cheap Ja! Oatmeal, either. And if there are ripe heirloom-tomatoes on offer, you can buy them. You don't have to buy green pre-packaged tomatoes. And when your washing machine is broken, you can order parts to fix it. And if you can't do that, you can pay someone to fix it or even buy a new one. On Bürgergeld? You can try to save up for a washing machine over five years, or pay it off on installments for five years, and then it's broken again and you will try to wash your clothes in the shower by hand, because of course you can't even afford a bathtub, and of course you will smell.
Life is so much better when you are not poor.