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In Dostevsky's House of the Dead, he described his vision of hell as a yard with a large stack of rocks on one side and the only thing you were able to do was carry the rocks from one side and form a stack on the other side, only to do it again ad infinitum. He described the hellish part not as the labor, but as a combination of not producing anything of actual value for the labor and not being justly compensated for it. An observation from a number of his works is that people will put up with any amount of hardship if, one way or another, they feel rewarded for it.
So yeah. A generous welfare state without appropriate checks to counter fraud will inevitably lead some people to become leeches, viewing welfare as an avoidance of hardship rather than a buffer to it.
So yeah. A generous welfare state without appropriate checks to counter fraud will inevitably lead some people to become leeches, viewing welfare as an avoidance of hardship rather than a buffer to it.