Well who wants a fishing pole, when you can get prefried chilean sea bass hot from the deli, and pay with a government issued credit card?
It is simply human nature. Give people free stuff and they do not want to work.
Teach a man to fish, and
>he’ll never be dependent on you again,
>you won’t be able to coerce him to do anything by withholding fish, and
>you’ll never be able to count on buying his vote by confiscating fish from those who catch them and giving them to him.