Most people who already were on government assistance don't care, they live in unsanitary, dilapidated housing where they eat the most basic shit or get fast food all the time for every meal. Their utilities are always months behind and when the power cuts out they holler at the electric company to get things turned back on or they'll pay that months bill and then not pay again for 3 months, they don't pay for rent or the mortgage but the banks aren't going to foreclose on a property worth $300 with a 50k lean on it because it'll just sit there until the city decides to demolish the entire block. The landlords refuse to do any work for the tenants who are so behind on their rent because they're basically squatting at this point. Their income is subsidized with under the counter work or just selling pills that they don't use for illnesses that they may or may not have because medicare and medicaid pay for all of it.
And they just do this for the next thirty years while they wait to see if their monthly checks get another twelve dollars added to it every year.
The only part of the work situation they understand is that they get 300 a week for free and that is usually about 75% of a weeks worth of minimum wage pay would get them.
So they look at the problem and see that if they gave up doing whatever they wanted every day of the week and worked 40 hours a week they could make an extra 20% at BEST every week. They're not going to do that, not when doing nothing keeps them sedentary. It's not like they have marketable skills that could get them a job that would pay them significantly more than minimum wage would. So why would they bother to put in the effort?
Most people who already were on government assistance don't care, they live in unsanitary, dilapidated housing where they eat the most basic shit or get fast food all the time for every meal. Their utilities are always months behind and when the power cuts out they holler at the electric company to get things turned back on or they'll pay that months bill and then not pay again for 3 months, they don't pay for rent or the mortgage but the banks aren't going to foreclose on a property worth $300 with a 50k lean on it because it'll just sit there until the city decides to demolish the entire block. The landlords refuse to do any work for the tenants who are so behind on their rent because they're basically squatting at this point. Their income is subsidized with under the counter work or just selling pills that they don't use for illnesses that they may or may not have because medicare and medicaid pay for all of it.
And they just do this for the next thirty years while they wait to see if their monthly checks get another twelve dollars added to it every year.
The only part of the work situation they understand is that they get 300 a week for free and that is usually about 75% of a weeks worth of minimum wage pay would get them.
So they look at the problem and see that if they gave up doing whatever they wanted every day of the week and worked 40 hours a week they could make an extra 20% at BEST every week. They're not going to do that, not when doing nothing keeps them sedentary. It's not like they have marketable skills that could get them a job that would pay them significantly more than minimum wage would. So why would they bother to put in the effort?