The depravity of that is in the dichotomy...
the commie libs INTENDED the welfare system to work that way, to ensure perpetual power,
and the sheeperals go along with it because they derive their righteousness from the advocacy to “help people”, not actually doing the helping themselves, but just for wanting to.
It was a political bribe that worked better than the Democrats who instituted it had hoped. But it also sold away what soul the Democrat party had.