As an aside about the basement-dwellers: forget race, consider the near future when robots replace truck drivers and low-income jobs become more and more automated. I think we both agree the current system can't account for this, since it's already failing as is.
I agree that it is morally wrong to take the $800 and do nothing, as opposed to working for your $2500 and paying taxes. That isn't my point. My point is that it makes logical sense that people will lack a desire to work when all their needs are met. To fix this problem, in my opinion, requires significant reform to social security and welfare programs, reform that will never win you a political election.
No one wants to bite that bullet, the buck is passed and eventually, sometime, the system will collapse. It has to. I am curious if you have any ideas as to how to fix the problem with low-income blacks leeching off the system.
The problem is exactly what you said in a nutshell. Nobody will ever get elected espousing the reforms that you are talking about. The buck has been continually passed until its not even recognizable anymore.
I wish I had ideas of how to force people to be productive. Unfortunately each person has to choose to be that. The inner cities have already started to collapse.
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As an aside about the basement-dwellers: forget race, consider the near future when robots replace truck drivers and low-income jobs become more and more automated. I think we both agree the current system can't account for this, since it's already failing as is.
I agree that it is morally wrong to take the $800 and do nothing, as opposed to working for your $2500 and paying taxes. That isn't my point. My point is that it makes logical sense that people will lack a desire to work when all their needs are met. To fix this problem, in my opinion, requires significant reform to social security and welfare programs, reform that will never win you a political election.
No one wants to bite that bullet, the buck is passed and eventually, sometime, the system will collapse. It has to. I am curious if you have any ideas as to how to fix the problem with low-income blacks leeching off the system.
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The problem is exactly what you said in a nutshell. Nobody will ever get elected espousing the reforms that you are talking about. The buck has been continually passed until its not even recognizable anymore.
I wish I had ideas of how to force people to be productive. Unfortunately each person has to choose to be that. The inner cities have already started to collapse.