alt Hacker News> to offset the cirme that would ensue if there isn't any social net.
The recent news from Minnesota suggests that the social safety net is a magnet for astonishing levels of theft.
> to offset the cirme that would ensue if there isn't any social net.
The recent news from Minnesota suggests that the social safety net is a magnet for astonishing levels of theft.
It's not the social safety, but the bad enforcement of the law. When bad acts are not punished, this is the problem that occurs.
Some social systems like in Israel if you're ablebodied you are given a public service job, like cleaning the park and etc... so you aren't entitled to a check for doing nothing.
South Africa hasn't any meaningful social net and the wealthy people live in special "high security" enclaves with additional guards and fenced perimeters. If you have a lot of hungry people on the street they will be forced to survive somehow and you'd get more crime.