> Except your granddaughter isn't providing services to society. I think it's arguable that she does. By doing what she does she relieves the system from takin

> Except your granddaughter isn't providing services to society. I think it's arguable that she does. By doing what she does she relieves the system from taking care of her grandmother, and thereby making whatever small amount of taxpayer money usable for something else meanwhile taking that economic burden on herself. (Edit: It can of course be seen that whatever wellfare money she gets is the equivalent of her service to grandmother/society, but in that case it's still at worst a zero sum scenario.)