> The whole argument against government safety nets is that companies will take care of their employees in a time of crisis I don’t recall ever hearing the arg

> The whole argument against government safety nets is that companies will take care of their employees in a time of crisis I don’t recall ever hearing the argument that companies should pick up the burden. But there is a lot of literature suggesting people save up for a ”rainy day”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+41&version=ESV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+41&vers...