This is true of social services to citizens too.

We are in total agreement. Take away all the freebies and watch
supposedly non-productive people start...

We're not in total agreement. We both agree that social services are an
unaccounted cost in many analyses, and it can be very deceptive when
they are omitted.

However, they also have unaccounted benefits, which accrue not only to
direct recipients, but also indirectly to others. Social services are
not bad in and of themselves. SOME social services are overall harmful,
SOME social services could be overall beneficial but are administrated
in a harmful manner, and SOME social services are in fact overall
harmful no matter how they are handled. We will probably agree on which
are which to some extent too, but it's not a slam dunk either way.

Jose
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