Photo by Rob Schreckhise on Unsplash Once, it was our birthright to live off the land.
Since the invention of property rights, money, and the system of paid work; ‘living off the land’ is no longer possible for most people in the developed world.
As a result, as Scott Santens has identified: Humans have become the only species that requires money to survive. WELFARE has been designed to meet this requirement by providing money for people who are ‘out of work’.Unfortunately, it comes with a ‘poverty trap’.The higher the benefit, the more rational it is for people to take it in […]
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