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> If the social program was designed to keep a roof over people’s head, then it would simply give people cash, or a roof.

Except it wouldn't happen, because it would get killed by even louder whining about giving free money to the lazy do-littles. Every social program has to have a layer of appeasing the people who only feel they're part of a society when it benefits them.




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