Speaking of generational, a social worker told me that a 6 year old child of a client of hers asked the social worker if, when she grew up, she would please be her case worker. The State is just a part of these peoples’ lives, cradle to grave. This is normalcy to them.
The case workers are multigenerational as well. For every $1 in taxpayer money a moocher gets, another $1 goes to a government clock puncher somewhere. While the moochers take all the resentment, half the beneficiaries of the welfare state get a pass.