> You seriously think it’s a good idea to pay people more to do nothing than they would get for their best option for doing something useful for somebody else?

> You seriously think it’s a good idea to pay people more to do nothing than they would get for their best option for doing something useful for somebody else? Nah, please consider re-reading my comment in its entirety. The comment that I’m replying to is taking a sentence out of context, creating a straw man out of it, and then attacking it. > You know the money comes from other people, right? Yeah, definitely > And if they refuse to pay, they get arrested, and if they refuse arrest, they get shot. So, given that the potential punishment for work includes death, why would anybody do that? Bit of a slippery slope (tax evasion, in the US, usually doesn’t lead to death at the hands of law enforcement) but yea, I agree with the sentiment here. Avoiding arrest is good (barring any justified civil disobedience)