The desire springs from the idea that if someone is not self-sufficient, they need a manager to oversee their resource management and consumption until they bec

The desire springs from the idea that if someone is not self-sufficient, they need a manager to oversee their resource management and consumption until they become self-sufficient. It's delusional to say that there's not a large number of poor people whose economic status is directly related to their poor money management skills, poor employability, or other "real problems" that need fixed, not just band-aided by free cash. In the same way that conservatives want to "micromanage" the lives of welfare recipients, liberals want you to believe everyone's problem is that they don't have infinity money and that there's no such thing as an imprudent expenditure. Liberals usually do not put any weight on independence or self-sufficiency, so they're OK with a society where everyone is on the dole. By contrast, conservatives believe that people who are not self-sufficient need help to become self-sufficient. Conservatives believe this is micromanagement to the same extent that liberals believe gun control to be micromanagement. To each party, it's the obvious, common sense solution, and it's not about patronizing or babysitting, it's just about supervising people who obviously need supervision.