Been a member since the beginning. Never necessarily needed the money, it was just a way to pass some time. I eventually found it as a way to raise some cash for casino money. More recently, now I'm retired and don't really gamble too much.. I might do a task here and there. Whatever I raise I donate to the local soup kitchen.
For those using it to "get by" idk, I mean I knew someone who qualified for SSDI in theory but was still denied. He used it to offset some cash needs but obviously was not sufficient enough. Think the bigger issue around ethics is more societal. People shouldn't have to rely on it in place of SSDI when they shouldn't have been denied. I suppose the same can apply to food stamps etc. With this administration obviously things are tightening and getting more strict. Potential SSDI reforms will probably exasperate the need for this service. The ideal is this wouldn't be the case and the service just provides the small cash niceties for small time gaming and donations.
''Time and again through our history, we have discovered that attempting merely to preserve the comfortable features of the present, rather than reaching for new levels of prosperity, is a sure path to stagnation'' - Alan Greenspan (https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2004/20040...)
when I was a less kind uncle I convinced my nephew who had no knowledge of Weird Al nor Coolio that an amish farmer really wrote the song. This would come back to haunt him in junior high music class when he got talking about it to his teacher who in turned got a good laugh.
Leaving it out overnight at room temp is a common enough practice. I know some families of Swartzentrubers who practice this regularly. Some say it thickens it some, others say it gives it a favorable tang. In the raw milk subset of the crohns/uc community it was adapted after it was found that leaving it out allows for antimicrobial resistance organism to grow (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7320593/). To understand why this is an appeal is a bit of a long explanation. Nonetheless, the cold chain is often broken in order to clabber.