Actually that’s assumed in my depiction of such a system. There is always going to be slacking/welfare advantage - that’s a given for me. It’s sort of a syste

Actually that’s assumed in my depiction of such a system. There is always going to be slacking/welfare advantage - that’s a given for me. It’s sort of a system weakness. The side point is how much of this dead weight loss is there vs how much actual good is done. In general there’s a lot of good that’s done in comparison to the good. The point I’m making is hat politicians will always point to the dead weight loss because it has massive PR/optical appeal. “Observe there the knave!” It’s a matter of a systemic loss to one system, being an outsize gain to another program. The trick is to avoid letting politicians get to a stage where such imagery has optical value. This means a society which usually has enough for most people, no manipulation of relations to paint one group or the other as villains and a generally efficient enough govt that people don’t stop to say “this needs to end”.