I have had those things . I was on SNAP . Everything nice that my family had we had before going on it . This goes without saying on this sub but if you see someone using a WIC , TANF , or SNAP card at the store and they have an iPhone , nice bag and jewelry , or they load their groceries into their Mercedes or Lexus it could be someone else ' s car they borrowed , they could have gotten it as a gift , they could have had it before going into poverty , etc . <| sep |> That has nothing to do with the issue I posted . <| sep |> This belongs on rcreepy <| sep |> Yes you are right and that ' s the reason they are so successful . Unlike Sweden , Japan has not yet lost their struggle mentality . All in all Japan is very culturally different from Sweden so sometimes it is difficult to draw comparisons between the two