It should be striking how our newly poor and unemployed get fat instead of battling starvation, and how we nonetheless tacitly disapprove of the family for goin

It should be striking how our newly poor and unemployed get fat instead of battling starvation, and how we nonetheless tacitly disapprove of the family for going nowhere and having no initiative to do something with their lives. Perhaps the problem is that coasting on our safety net represents a significant local maximum in quality of life, and that we have a hard time getting the incentives lined up so that we can offer aid for the long term and actually enforce long-term decision-making. We find government intrusion into personal choice distasteful, but I for one don't want to provide more to people who aren't going to use it for upward mobility for themselves and their families. How can we provide messaging and examples of every day people who have made a difference for themselves and their families through study and hard work?