They may not just go away, but pain (from lack, need, situations) in ones life is a good motivator to make changes for the better, or to embrace the pain and choose to be unchanged and stuck in spiral of lack and need, etc.
If the core supporters of the left would ever face pain for their bad choices I would agree; unfortunately the nanny state is in the business (via the poverty-industrial complex) of minimizing that for them. The only pain I see is the high murder rates of their young, but when I see how they raise them (by NOT raising them) I doubt there is any pain involved - unless the victim was a meal-ticket for freebies.