The danger of the modern welfare state isn’t just the economic cost. It’s the quiet destruction of human agency. When the state replaces the dignity of work, it replaces purpose with dependency.
When government aid pays better than an entry-level job, the system isn’t broken . . . it’s working exactly as designed to create a permanent dependent class.
The paradox of socialism: It promises to eliminate the poor, but its entire existence relies on creating more of them. It doesn’t cure poverty; it manufactures it.