People underestimate how destructive to a society social safety nets are. All of the incentives are turned upside down.

Charity is better because those giving can judge the worthiness of those receiving and it is not effectively an entitlement.

My husband convinced me to get pregnant. I had the baby, got laid off, and left him — I’m happy with all of my decisions.

“I let strangers — an immigrant family — live in my house and pay my utilities while I share a bedroom with my daughter in my childhood home. Instead of putting her in care and finding a new job, I made use of the government benefit, reduced my bills, and embraced the multigenerational family home.”

h/t Thatch