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Its not fucked up at all. You'll (the average person not someone with a disability preventing them from working) will always need to do something. Even welfare systems require you to do something or be kicked off.
plenty of countries have welfare systems that don't require anything to use, the incredibly small amount of "parasites" that will abuse these systems are essentially a rounding error.
most people actually don't mind working jobs, if it atleast feels like it's their own choice to work it
as a whole the US spends more time/resources trying to punish poor people than it would cost just to allow some poor people to abuse the system
Which ones are those? Because as far as I'm aware welfare requires people to be looking for work
Think of every country WalMart doesn't want you to know/bring up the labor laws of.
No, those countries still require people who are able to work to be searching for work to receive welfare. I checked germany, norwary UK and China and its the same requirement across the board.
You cannot be able to work and just decide to not work and expect to receive welfare. You must have a medical reason. I see no reason against this, its not unjust to expect people to work.