"...'charitable' institutions such as workmen's compensation, collective bargaining in labor, unemployment insurance, and welfare programs were begun not by advocates of the poor, as is universally accepted, but by the rich. These programs promote their own class interests. The aim of this state-corporate charity system is not to redistribute wealth from rich to poor, but to buy up the potential leaders of the poor and tie them to the hegemony of the ruling class, while maintaining an intellectual class determined to convince in unwary public that government charity actually benefits them.
-Walter Block
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/03/andrew-moran/welfare-opponents-hate-poor/