It applies across the board. Studies of poverty traps provide evidence of learned helplessness. If you're rich, most things that go wrong can be solved with money. If you're poor, money isn't a solution to any problem.

Even $500 a month solves a lot of problems that will enable the individual to get out of a hole they'd otherwise die in.

There are producers and there are consumers. For millennia, the benefit of the work done by productive people has flowed, disproportionately to unproductive people.

Society is revolting at the unfairness. Rich folks get more than $500/mo on their mortgage interest deduction. Poor people have nothing. Get nothing. Work hard barely to survive.

The lack of equity is destroying society. Our human contract with each other is being honored by one set of people and not by another. Selective application of rules is resentful.

There are producers and there are consumers. The producers aren't going to stop producing because the government gives them food, water, and shelter. These are basic human needs. Basic needs for any living organism. We treat other humans worse than animals, yet they are.

We have to change our collective consciousness and be honest with ourselves or we won't progress civilly.