Life was hard during the Great Depression of the 30’s ... with real unemployment over 25%. But that time had fewer people on assistance - AND fewer ‘homeless’...
Something is wrong.
We’ve created perverse incentives that are causing problems in our culture from school shootings to the ‘homeless’ to almost total alienation in our populations.
If you want to discourage something....you tax it, if you want to encourage something...you subsidize it.
We tax work, property ownership, businesses etc.
We subsidize poverty, single parent "families" (complete with abusive drug dealer live-in boyfriends) hence feral murdering bastards. etc etc etc
The list is long and insane.