Reply #37: Or, more realistically

[loyalsister]

we could view it as an insurance program.
You pay in and if you lose your life savings in the market there is a back up for poverty protection.
People who have not paid in receive benefits for disability insurance.

All of this is better for all, because when people have a little money to survive on, they also have some money to spend and put back into the economy.
Families don't have to go broke providing for them.
It is an insurance program we all pay into.
Not everyone actually needs it, but the idea that since people paid into it they deserve to get it back corrupts how we view solutions.
The idea is that it is simply better for all of us if fewer people live in gutter level poverty.