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The welfare system requires more than a minimal amount of paperwork, and a lot of people are surprisingly bad with paperwork. Then you have immigrants who don't

• eru 3y ago
  > The welfare system requires more than a minimal amount of paperwork, [...] Sorry, I meant that there's a certain bar of competency with paperwork you have to meet. (But exceeding that bar is possible, and can be useful.) I did not mean to make a statement about how big that bar is. A 'minimum' does not have to be small in absolute terms. But I realise that usage was confusing.
• RugnirViking 3y ago
  > "a lot of people are surprisingly bad with paperwork." I guess you're writing for a class of people for whom this is easier. But perhaps a more informative view of the situation, rather than saying "people are bad at this" may instead be to realise that if you're able to deal with this sort of stuff without issue, you are very likely in the minority (very few are as good at this as us). This can perhaps inform how you feel about certain requirements for certain programs. As an illustrative example, a great many otherwise highly capable people who are able to write impressive art or fiction (including for example, many famous musicians and authors) struggle mightily with contracts and managers on the regular.