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I completely agree with the do nothing approach. I live in Spain and it feels like they've taken the opposite approach. All the systems are designed to catch the 0.01% of people who abuse the system which makes it impossible for the 99.99% of other people. This means people just don't do things because there's too much paperwork. The result is a non-functioning economy and massive unemployment.

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I don't think that is a Spain only problem. As an American, that speaks to me of how most government and corporate systems operate. They are actively detrimental to helping people in need and do a terrible job of preventing fraud.

Here they are more likely to result in punishing the already poor or underprivileged and at times seem to be the way we prop our economy up.

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