Dr.Traveler
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The ultimate goal is to provide food and housing for everyone. When you offer everyone food and housing for nothing most people are not going to freely work. So how can you force someone to work and still maintain human rights?
By making sure that the food and housing provided insures survival, not comfort. That's why public monies for food should be limited to fruits, vegetables, dairy, and grain. You can live without meat, chocolate, alcohol, and cigarettes.
Public housing should be pretty minimal with enough environmental control to ensure you don't freeze to death or die of heatstroke.
For those thinking I'm being too tough there, I grew up in a two bedroom house with 3 kids and 2 parents. No A/C until I was well into my teens and a heater set really damn low to save money. I remember some summers lunch being an optional meal and sometimes lunch was a bread and butter sandwich. You can survive on pretty minimal standards. It's the desire for comfort that can make you want to thrive. Now my quality of life is drastically improved and my own son won't have to grow up like I did.
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