I’d also like to add the social democrat view of welfare as practiced in nordic countries. We try to avoid the American solution of a huge patchwork of small in

I’d also like to add the social democrat view of welfare as practiced in nordic countries. We try to avoid the American solution of a huge patchwork of small individual programs. Instead we prefer broad non-means tested rights. The reason is twofold: a lot of people don’t want to degrade themselves into taking welfare, hence they end up with no help. Support and quality for means tested programs tend to drop quickly, because only narrow interest groups exist to champion it. We see this with e.g. schools. It the middle class all send their children to private schools then the quality of public schools tend to be very bad. That is because there is less pressure to improve it. We saw this phenomenon over night when de-segregation happened. Blacks schools which got white studens received a lot more improvements, upgrades and quality focus.