What Is Poverty?
When every benefit is received as a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone gratitude.
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In the welfare state, mere survival is not the achievement that it is, say, in the cities of Africa, and therefore it cannot confer the self-respect that is the precondition of self-improvement.
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...a system of welfare that makes no moral judgments in allocating economic rewards promotes antisocial egotism.