Oddbean new post about login | logout @9595301e It’s not helping people that pisses us off, it’s the systemic, totally game-able version of it that we pay for and have no say over how it functions. It’s unfair to the payers and creates generational “ dependency “ for the recipients. The churches are, or were anyway…IDK…a much better option for assisting those who truly need it.
@8f56b62c financial welfare programs are not the job of the church.
@9595301e Before government crowded them out of the “ market” they were….in some form. Could have been financial assistance, means tested, or just direct help. I remember when I was 10 (1976) my friends very devout family had voluntarily taken in a drug addict into their home, at the behest of their church. They had the guy living in my friends brothers room, who had relocated to my friends room for the time. I can still smell the cigarettes they actually let him smoke in there….