v: So let's give to these families everything for free so they can stop working?
No. Let's ensure that they have enough food, shelter, and medical care that they don't have to spend every spare minute struggling for these things, and stay healthy enough to work.
Most civilized and developed societies grasp this concept.
v: It's obvious that feeding and sheltering those whom you call "poor" doesn't eliminate or reduce what you call "poverty" because the more comfortable life you create for them, the less incentives they have to abandon this life. Your method doesn't work.
And you imagine allowing people to get sick from malnutrition and descend into homelessness DOES work?
We've tried a society without a social safety net. It didn't work. It just meant large numbers of people either dying or becoming disabled.
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No. Let's ensure that they have enough food, shelter, and medical care that they don't have to spend every spare minute struggling for these things, and stay healthy enough to work.
Most civilized and developed societies grasp this concept.
v: It's obvious that feeding and sheltering those whom you call "poor" doesn't eliminate or reduce what you call "poverty" because the more comfortable life you create for them, the less incentives they have to abandon this life.
Your method doesn't work.
And you imagine allowing people to get sick from malnutrition and descend into homelessness DOES work?
We've tried a society without a social safety net. It didn't work. It just meant large numbers of people either dying or becoming disabled.
Do you like that idea?