Through four years and working for around thirty different families, I only met one that were just clearly in need of help. And they were a couple suffering from undiagnosed developmental disabilities. (The local social services took the opportunity of our construction project to gain access to the house and get them properly into the system.) Almost everyone else we worked for were just shiftless leechers prone to outbursts of violence.

It made me realize that most "humanitarian" outfits serving "the poor" are doing a great disservice to the elimination of human suffering. Subsidizing "the poor" just creates more poor people. If we really wanted to reduce human suffering, we would leave "the poor" to die off and subsidize the family formation and procreation of successful people.