[Jedi72]

Believe away Dorothy, reality is a small % of the population, i.e. millions of people, are pretty much screw-ups. Welfare is the blanket solution for how we deal with it. Giving everyone BI and taking away peoples welfare is going to fail in all these cases, so will fail generally. Even here in Australia where we have good welfare we still have government housing, soup kitchens and tonmes of other real-assistance programs.

[SubiculumCode]

Having lived poor, known a lot of poor people, and having lived on welfare as I got my PhD. (first gen college student), I can say that you are wrong about most poor people. They generally make good decisions, given their situation and means. Those that don't are usually addicted to drugs, and they already trade their food benefits away for those drugs.

Welfare (at least in America) has all the wrong incentives that make it difficult to improve your situation (e.g. lose benefits and all your time if you get a minimum wage job, and who is going to watch the kids now).

[Jedi72]

Yes there are poor people who work hard. There are also rich people who become crackheads. I never actually mentioned poor people I just said some people are screw-ups, which is true.