Well if we can ‘take care of the poor’ in a way that encourages them to provide value, the there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s the idea of ‘something for nothing’ that’s the issue.
That's the purpose of societal safety nets fundamentally.
Coming from someone who has lived through abject poverty, I can tell you sincerely that it is not a place that is easy to get out of. In fact, most people simply don't have it in them to do it themselves.
The purpose of those programs is to stabilize the environment such that the person can come back to a place of creating value. There exist people who are legitimate leaches who never want to do shit for shit about shit and those people are obviously shit. But most of them, genuinely, are struggling to get by (self imposed as their exile might be) and through a Maslow Violation, most genuinely need the little societal boost.
The bad archetypes exist just like the greedy scrooge mcduck archetype wealthy person exists. They exist. Maybe. I've never met either archetype embodied. And if I thought I had, a few minutes of empathetic conversation revealed that to be a false assumption. Most everyone is somewhere in between...
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