> The government can not and should not lift people out of poverty if those people refuse to work to better themselves. At some point automation will leave us

> The government can not and should not lift people out of poverty if those people refuse to work to better themselves. At some point automation will leave us in a place where many, if not most, people’s labor is literally worthless because they’re not mechanics or engineers. Then what? Should those people starve even as we live in a time of abundance instead of scarcity? At what point does this concept of deservedness do more harm than good?