This has been going on since the 1700s, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speenhamland_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speenhamland_system And was critic

This has been going on since the 1700s, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speenhamland_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speenhamland_system And was criticized as indirect corporate welfare then too