If you are a developer in the US you are probably receiving all of that except college tuition. Worth the extra 60K/year in my opinion but I see the appeal of having the option to live off of social programs if needed
it is also not about you being able to afford those things.
It is about the rest of society and the people around you also being able to afford those things. To allow people from poor backgrounds to go to university and contribute on the intellectual level they posses, it is so that people working on some of the nasties and most dangerous jobs that still require doing. (heavy industry, most healthcare jobs) can live without the desperation of poverty.
Some people might simply not be in the luck in regards to intelligency, luck, wealth etc compared to you, but that does not mean they should be held back by it in my opinion.
Some people might simply not be in the luck in regards to intelligency, luck, wealth etc compared to you, but that does not mean they should be held back by it in my opinion.