Jehovah's Witnesses and Bethelites and Social Security

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Hi yall,
I was watching a youtube video a while back and it was talking about the the Bethelite Religious Order in the Jehovah Witnesses. It said that earlier in JW history they were more about the "priesthood of all believers." However they decided to start a religious order for tax reasons because they realized that starting a religious order would help them tax-wise. These Bethelites live together at JW headquarters. I think the JW Governing Body may have done this because it would allow them to get out of paying social security because the JW's would take care of their Bethelites in their golden years.

However this apparently might not of happened. I heard that they kicked out some of the Bethelites when they were old and senior age. Some of them wound up homeless on the streets. They could not get social security benefits even though they were of age because they did not have their 40 quarters in the workforce. I just read that some of those people applied for SSI because they did not qualify for regular social security. I think this may amount to tax evasion on the part of the Governing Body because one of the only reasons why the feds have allowed them to opt out of social security is because they assumed the Governing Body would take care of their elderly in a similar way to how the Amish take care of their own elderly instead of being on social security. Some of these people are sent to their family back home if they have any.Also some of these people have given their home to the church so they dont have that asset to provide for them in their old age.

Bethel is where they make their publications and productions. Young JWs, especially young men, are urged to have going to Bethel as a life goal. When and if you’re accepted, you work and live there. It amounts to slave labor because they give you an allowance, not actual pay for work. They often kick people out when their position is made redundant, like if it’s replaced by technology. Sometimes they decide to replace older people with younger people. When they go back home, people in their home congregation are supposed to help them, but given the issue of poverty among JWs that often doesn’t happen. It’s a really sad situation.

I knew a very bright young man who went to Bethel. Everyone was extremely proud of him for it. When I asked what he was doing there, it turns out that he was serving food. People were gushing about him as one would expect people to gush about someone working for Doctors Without Borders. Obviously, there’s nothing wrong with serving food, but he had a lot of promise and could’ve had a career in whatever field interested him if college wasn’t so frowned upon.

Here’s what the Watchtower says about Bethel:

I suppose that they could marry someone who has social security benefits, and at least get the spousal benefits. I've heard of marriage fraud for immigration, but maybe nobody thought about it for social security.

^ It could happen, especially since the vast majority of Bethelites are male. Women don’t typically go there unless they are married to a man who’s been accepted. Women aren’t allowed to take on any leadership roles unless there’s exceptional circumstances and a penis is unavailable. They mostly do stuff like housekeeping, haircutting, and nursing.

In the organization as a whole, there’s fewer men, so a lot of women stay single.