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Why do you complain about people in welfare? (I think it's a good thing that a country provides welfare to its people like Norway does.)
by winter_blue 15y ago
Why do you complain about people in welfare?
(I think it's a good thing that a country provides welfare to its people like Norway does.)
- latch 15y agoI've lived in a country with good social services and one with less good social services. They both have their ups and downs. The problem with social services as a system, is the same problem as with any system: people game it. I assume in Norway it's no different. Employed feel that the [some] of the unemployed are lazy and taking advantage of the system.
- __rkaup__ 15y agoIt's worth a mention that this is a common complaint in the UK. We've even had a few government ads run railing against "benefits fraud."
- vetler 15y agoSome people take advantage of it. People who don't use it might feel like they're paying for lazy bums. Personally I like to think most people aren't on welfare voluntarily. I recently read somewhere that Norwegians are some of the most gullible people in the world though. YMMV.
- swah 15y agoThe bad behaviours it encourages: having another child to receive state support, don't look for jobs if you expect to be paid less than the what the govt pays unemployed folks, etc.