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But doesn't giving away money make the poor less interested in finding a job? Sooner or later they will get addicted to the free money.
by krzyk 14y ago
But doesn't giving away money make the poor less interested in finding a job?
Sooner or later they will get addicted to the free money.
- colmvp 14y agoHow does a poor person find a job when they don't have the money for basic necessities that include resources that help find and acquire a job?
- sageikosa 14y agoCharity, not welfare. When it's welfare, you have one monopolistic "service" provider, which ends up getting managed by bureaucratic means (to ensure low graft and wastage, leading paradoxically to a specific and growing amount of wastage as the bureaucracy expands, but that's a different point). With charity, you have multiple providers, and they compete for funding from contributors so are incented to be as maximally efficient as the charitable services market allows. And quite frankly, I'd rather live in a charitable society than a welfare society.
- salvadors 14y agoI'm pretty sure that the context here isn't about providing people with a constant income, but simply taking your comments at face value: Why would that be so bad? Why is it essential for everyone to have a job?