"overgenerous benefits"
- from the ivory tower
- from the ivory tower
It's not about feeding and clothing everyone who needs it. It's about seeing if there are any jobs out there that people feel are beneath them and if you find any, lower the floor a bit until the jobs don't look so bad.
lower the floor a bit until the jobs don't look so bad
Surely you can see how this reply reads as “let them eat cake”? (And thats the most polite way to put it I could think of).
I don't think that was the parents intent. I read it as descriptive of how the system currently functions, not as justification for it being that way.
I've been thinking about this, how a society can get necessary work done without forcing some people to choose between doing it or starving. Perhaps if everyone was guaranteed to be fed, to be housed, and to have medical care, then the market would find a fair price for collecting garbage or cleaning floors.
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