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> Many people prefer that to working. Hence why I said "virtually", having a few anecdotes from interviews or from someone you knew doesn't cover it. Of course
by piva00 2y ago
> Many people prefer that to working.
Hence why I said "virtually", having a few anecdotes from interviews or from someone you knew doesn't cover it. Of course there will be people who choose to live on welfare, the vast majority would rather not. It's a small price to pay to have welfare programs saving countless lives from falling deeper into the hole of abject poverty... We just view this very differently, you prefer the "stick" approach, punish people who you deem unworthy because of their lack of motivation to work; while me on the other hand prefer the "carrot" where I think it's an okay price to pay to have some people choosing to not to work while society can protect people caught in bad times from falling away from the margins.
It's still absurd the straw man you created, please provide me data covering the whole population and we can discuss it, while it's based on these anecdotes you just being guided by your feelings and ideology.
- kiba 2y agoMaking people work is an assumption that work in itself is valuable, or at worse, mostly valuable. This isn't necessarily the case for jobs, and some jobs are probably actually detrimental to the well being of our society.
- WalterBright 2y agoIf you're willing to pay someone to do a job for you, then you have implicitly deemed it to be valuable.
- WalterBright 2y agoIf I can personally run across such people, friends of mine run across them, the reporter has no trouble finding them, then it isn't rare. > punish people It's not about punishing people or whacking them with a stick. It's about paying people to fail. There's also nothing wrong with you, me, or anybody else freely helping those who you, me, or others deem to be in need.