He was wrong. Jobs aren’t social programs, they’re things you do to contribute to society. I know that probably isn’t your point, but the quote is just anti-poverty fear mongering that doesn’t even make any sense when you think about it for more than two seconds.
Like, at best, you could read it as “people with jobs are better off than people without jobs” and like, yeah, no shit. Turns out you get paid for working, which tends to help the ol’ budgeting thing, but that isn’t what social programs are for. They’re supposed to set a baseline for everyone so that we don’t have things like rampant crime, desperate people stuck in dead-end situations, and people who are so unable to fend for themselves that they become a major burden on society.
He was wrong. Jobs aren’t social programs, they’re things you do to contribute to society. I know that probably isn’t your point, but the quote is just anti-poverty fear mongering that doesn’t even make any sense when you think about it for more than two seconds.
Like, at best, you could read it as “people with jobs are better off than people without jobs” and like, yeah, no shit. Turns out you get paid for working, which tends to help the ol’ budgeting thing, but that isn’t what social programs are for. They’re supposed to set a baseline for everyone so that we don’t have things like rampant crime, desperate people stuck in dead-end situations, and people who are so unable to fend for themselves that they become a major burden on society.