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That is the saddest thing I've ever read on this site. I know there's people who believe that but it's still shocking to me.

This is the view among most Americans, reinforced by the word 'un'employed which suggests that the default condition is for someone to be employed.

Perhaps not the default but it is the norm. Regardless of semantics we should be pushing UBI for exactly these instances.

"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think." -Ayn Rand

I was also raised in a family like this.