[who_would_fardels_bear]

If there's a really solid safety net (welfare system) then the world gets overpopulated with slackers.

If there is little or no safetly net then the world gets overpopulated with materialist jerkwads.

The person who solves this problem deserves a Nobel Prize.

[Publius]

If there is little or no safetly net then the world gets overpopulated with materialist jerkwads.

Interesting observation. In the popular children's literature of the era before the New Deal, the Horatio Alger books all had heroes who obsessed over every penny on their inevitable way to success. You may have something there.

[ShasheMac]

Or maybe He’ll just be crucified.