Coping With Welfare Equals Losing 13 IQ Points

[daredtowork]

50. churches should understand the reason why

The type of aid they offer is fragmented and not enough. It is the same is when a random person cries "help me!" on the Internet, and it's the luck of a draw whether they find some person or community willing to do that - or whether they just find "compassion fatigue" or people who are jaded and cynical because they were besieged by scammers the last time they exhibited the willingness to help anyone.

The idea of secular welfare: regular/reliable, impartial, designed to enable people survive and, if possible, lift them back into the mainstream.

Well, that's the idea.

Sure, there are plenty of people who might just stay on an alternative system to work if it's offered. But why not? There's not enough work. We have an economic system with a "natural" 6% unemployment rate already - though it's been larger for years, and it's only going to get better. Welfare is a bad choice of alternative lifestyle: you will get very little in the way of "discretionary" income, your mobility will be low, you just wont be able to do much with your life. Any person who wants anything out of their life will want to find another way. But if someone doesn't want to, why not let them?

If people do make this "choice", isn't the actual question why are the circumstances of the paying workplace so bad that people would "want" to flee? Maybe the onus is on business owners to make the prospect of work more attractive so people won't choose the alternative route.