Nobody owes you a living. "Contributing to the labour force" isn't a religion; it is a necessary condition of life, without which we starve. There's no free lunch.
I think that, to protect your ego against accusations of laziness, you've projected this idea of society as a pointless activity, so you can defend to yourself your choices. It is self-delusional.
.. and that's why we turn pensioners out into the snow once they cease contributing.
Oh, wait, no we don't, because we recognise that they're human beings and members of society.
The OP is talking about cases where you are not in retirement, and not disabled, the society expects you to pull your own weight. It is only fair, no?
2. Even minimum wage earners have retirement contributions deducted through payroll. Not a lot of money, true, but poor people's pensions are slightly subsidized by higher earners (which is fair, IMO).
"There is no good or bad, it's only what you can or you cannot do".
Everyone will act in it's best interest, according to the possibilites that is has available.
Those possibilites are refined by the feedback from the other members of society.
100 years ago this may have been true, but there has been this great thing called automation (letting machines do our work for us) which has flourished over the past century (especially in the area of food production).
Food production is a solved problem. ~40% of food goes wasted in the US every year.
So no, we don't need "all hands on deck" to keep us from starving anymore. Insisting on such in the face of obvious surplus and an obesity epidemic is what is delusional.
Since FDR, social programs has been implemented, so actually, yes, everyone is owed something because we understood that society can easily crash if some people don't have food.
Well you should knock to doors in all the ghettos you can find to get an answer or at least some bit of conversation.
> I thought social programs were more about moral aspects
It's also a matter of society not drowning in crime. It's better if government can give money to people instead of criminal paying poor people to sell drugs.