Will Storr
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They could chase their dreams and pursue their dreams.
The other part of me is like, yeah, but then they're not going to have any incentive to do anything.
They're going to have their food taken care of, they're going to have their shelter taken care of, and they're just going to fucking, there's going to be a certain percentage of people that are never going to get their ass going.
We're going to miss wasted potential of people who could have pulled their life together and become something really special by overcoming these bizarre obstacles that lead you to success in any given field.
But if all of a sudden you have all your food taken care of and your shelter taken care of and you just want to sit there,
But you have no there's a certain amount of people that need a little something to get them going.
And a lot of like really ambitious people came from poverty.
And it's because when they were young, they didn't have shit.
And then they figured out that there's you got to work harder and you got to go after things.
They're going to use it and they're going to chase their dreams.
What percentage of people that do have the potential to break out of that won't because of a social assistance net that's a little bit too comfortable?
But the idea of just straight money and housing.
That's what I'm talking about.
Straight money and housing is a different kind of social safety net.
And I think that there's a real good argument for what you're saying, that some people are just โ they just don't have the tools.
But then there's also a good argument that some people have never been given the opportunity to excel in a thing that they're interested in because they never really found a thing they're interested in.
It's just getting โ there's some people that were like led very โ