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You also need health, genuine opportunity and limited other drains on your energy - don't have anyone sick that needs you, and don't have any children. If you'v

You also need health, genuine opportunity and limited other drains on your energy - don't have anyone sick that needs you, and don't have any children. If you've already lost your health, or have someone relying on you as a carer, or are living somewhere without real opportunity (or perhaps very vulnerable to something that'll get you fired or deeper in inescapable debt - one car maintenance issue, one missed bus, one day off sick), well... Also, you need the ability to plan and budget your time. These are real skills, and if you don't have them, nobody's going to teach you, so you're also out of luck there.

malandrew 7y ago
Fair enough. I'm as atheist as they come, but I honestly think things worked better when we left those cases you mentioned to the church instead of to government. At least the church operates on the model of "god helps those that help themselves" so there is a genuine effort from those providing relief to get people off the relief instead of letting them become dependent. When the government does it, they are just administering a narcotic, often indefinitely. community > government