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by dnautics
3610 days ago
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Why is this limited to wealth? Why don't we consider that adeptness at accessing government benefits is a socioeconomic lottery system? As in, those who are particularly capable of extracting resources from public sources teach their children how to do this. I'm not referring to welfare, but rather, stimulus packages, bailouts, SBIRs, business development tax incentives, low interest goverment loans, etc. |
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As for welfare: "adedptness at accessing" is what is also driving inequality within the group of welfare-recipients. While the college grad, that can't find a job has a rather easy time figuring out what forms to fill out how, the typical poor kid coming from a family of consecutive generational poorness, won't even know about the majority of services he could get from the government.
It's why I find welfare-reactionaries (people who oppose welfare reform) often to be subconsciously devious: They oppose reforms that would simplify welfare, even if it means more money for those who are poorer than themselves.