Did the governments interference in peoples lives make it worse, especially welfare?

[RiseofArtemis]

This is my take here. The Government should only make decisions which are for the best of the citizens but did they create laws which inherently caused only a lot of damage to the people and society as it is, the complete opposite of what they actually wanted to achieve. I think yes. Laws and welfare that enabled things like single parenting did cause that exact damage which we see today running rampant. A person who knows if they screw up they are on their own with no help will more then likely be careful of what they do and how they act but if they know the government will just pay for their mistake they won't be as responsable with it. Which creates the exact problem we see today children growing up in broken homes because the mothers slept with dudes who didn't care about or are have different flaws and those children will grow up broken and become the same exact thing. Dudes who sleep around carelessly knocking up girls and the normal tax payer has to pay for it or some poor fool. And the girls become irresponsible. This could all be prevented if the parents raised them right and the school system was actually made to prevent irresponsible behavior from happening.

[NaultD]

Social nets are important and makes life better for everyone. Are they as good as they should be? definitely not. Can they be better? Absolutely. Why are we dragging our ass on this issue? Probably you.

Since we started these Social programs you don't see 10 year old children taking a smoke break just outside coal mine with the only two fingers they have left. Life is better then its ever been even within a single life time. It can be and should be better but it's the people profiteering on suffering are holding all of us back.

You can't even blame taxes because they take a percentage on any income so they benefit on everyone being better off. Like a fiduciary advisors

[Rangers]

They're interfering way too much, almost every law passed since 1960 needs to be trashed so we can go back to freedom, prosperity and economic growth. Our economy has been stagnant since 1980 where our per capita GDP has stagnated relative to inflation.

Since 2000, our inflation has been outpacing GDP per capita growth and we took a net loss of more than 10% in 2020 thanks to democrats shutting everything down. Inflation continues to get worse and wages continue falling so it's not improving

[Anonymous]

Welfare has definitely made things worse, in several different ways.

[OddBeMe]

Guessing youve never been saved by unemployement or college pell grants.

[NamerOfStars]

If you think welfare makes people's lives worse, you've clearly never been poor. Specifics of the system, *incentivizing* poor decisions the way it does, are a different matter, but I don't think that making broad-strokes social commentary is really what the government should be doing. Down that road lies autocracy.

[jshm2]

You're not the brightest, kiddo.

People voted in the government and it's laws - not the other way round. Hence most of your soliloquy is wrong and laughable

[OddBeMe]

Lets see, statistically we’re in the best of all possible eras. Most productivity, least crime, etc. So I’d say investing in colleges, unemployment and even daycare is a very good thing. Better than tax cuts for billionaires.

[RiseofArtemis]

The moral decline seems to suggest we are in the worst time of human societies era. Ancient Rome was the exact same and look where that got them.

[OddBeMe]

I guess I’d ask where are you getting these stats on “moral decline”? And also, define moral decline.

Because morality is subjective.

[RiseofArtemis]

You just have to look around. How many bad behaved children are around in the western nations. How many kids are in jail compared to 30 years ago how did crime rates go up in the city you are in. Everything regarding to that is moral decline together with turning your back on religious values.

[OddBeMe]

Just have to look around. Logical Fallacy much?

Also, the world population literally doubled since our parents were born.

[Shamalien]

It ensured our destruction