Married families that are productive can exist without the state. They don't need welfare.

It would just be incentivising people to do good things.

Big time

Like get married, Stay together, Have stable jobs, etc.

The easiest thing to do would be to shut down welfare entirely and let the "dumb" people wise up.

Maybe they can get a Tax Cut via the Program.

We typically reward bad behavior and punish people doing "the good stuff"

People get a lot more clever when they have to to survive.

But be penalized for committing crimes.

Or they become criminals

You have to be careful @Ankha Thats getting into social credit system territory. We already punish people for break the law and stuff. No need to take it a step further.

Currently the justification for the system that we have is that our surplus of food is easier to give from than the coffers, so it's not as much of a tangible net loss as the numbers would suggest, and they have the benefit of keeping these people mostly pacified.

I didn't say disband The Dollar.

Inducing a survival scenario on dumb people while other people flourish the next neighborhood over is a good way to up the murder rate

Hell, Fuck the Federal Reserve and Fiat Currency.

^

It could just get people to use coupons and not be stupid with the free worthless money you give them

I don't think anyone it suggesting inducing a survival scenario.

I think we need to **De**flate The Dollar.

Thats precisely what jake said

You just have to make it appealing to the responsible people to do things that will help society.

"People get clever when they have to survive"

Deflation seizes up investment and could make the econony have a heart attack.

If the value of money itself ever had an upward trend then people would sit on it in large numbers just waiting for their free money

Money getting less valuable long-term encourages people to use it.

We should just go back to the gold standard

No there isn't enough gold for everyone

Fuck em

The French tried to clear us out last time we had a gold guarantee

The french forget they exist because we allow it

Fuck it

Collapse society

Ancapistan

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Recreational McNukes for all

No dude.

There's even less nukes than gold

This isn't a Bethesda game

*obvious joke is obvious*

Back to serious time

As Automation becomes more prevelant