If the government gives able bodied people money not to work, does this create a dependency on the state?

Question

If the government gives able bodied people money not to work, does this create a dependency on the state?

Answer 1

I couldn't tell you how others might play the system.  In my case, I did spend some time collecting benefits due to a schizophrenic episode followed by severe depression and a series of shock treatments.  After a time, I got bored and a bit depressed because I felt like I was living life on the sidelines...that I wasn't a functioning, contributing, productive member of society and had to a large extent forfeited any right to complain or voice any opinion about the way our national or global system operates.  Now, I'm working full time and very glad I am.  Though I wouldn't mind if the standard workweek were shorter and wages higher.  If the federal government wanted to cut all social security, Medicaid, Medicare, in short all of our country's social safety nets I would hope they would at least do everything they could to provide jobs and training for the people who would lose all those benefits as opposed to just cutting them loose and letting them fend for themselves.  Personally, I'd rather live an empathetic life and risk being taken advantage of than harden my heart to the suffering of others.  I think I'd lose more in the long run if I tried to live and think like that.

Answer 2

Yes, and it's what has proliferated the Welfare State for so long.

Answer 3

Yes it's the new form of Slavery , for if you are dependent on someone or something for you care and feeding you are a slave