@djc but not "a safety net"! that is, the minimum is always there for everyone, not a thing you have to prove your misery in order to deserve.

(on the topside, i'd ask you to think about what it would take to solve the many social problems we face if we were serious and unified in addressing them, and why we don't do those things. we are paralyzed because a very few people are addicted to impossible lives and immersed in egotistic competitions.)