We had a lot of works programs during the Great Depression and we didn't work people to death .
That wasn't the state's intention, to "work people to death".
That's why it didn't happen.
Kindly put, we in Michigan have had people who could get apartments/housing paid for by the State.
Just 2 points :
- Giving people too much is like making them dependent. It's like putting too much money into poo African countries - without asking the people living there for what it should be spent.
Because if they are NOT asked, where the money is NEEDED, then the money flows "parallel" zu them, bypassing them.
It makes them dependent.
- The oher point I wanted to give is that of a "housing monopoly".
It goes like this here in Germany :
Blocks of flats standing in certain urban districts are usually full with people of lower social classes. It's a failure in social housing, to put too many of the same social structure together - whast evolves is a kind of "modern ghetto".
But that's not the point.
The point is, that these blocks of flats are ofrten full with people who are already dependent from sicial elfare - and their flats are paid by the government.
Now, what happens ist this : Estate companies buy these blocks of flats. They cash in the rental fees. Which is payed by the government, because of the welfare.
These estate companies re for the profits. They cash in the rental fees, but do NOTHING to repair or otherwise support the physical flats.
The result is, hat these blocks of flats deteriorate in the course of time. And no-one does anything.
The inhabitants are often too poor, and they often don't even now how to protest agaimnst this. No-one told them that formal protesting is possible.
we here in Germany have the possibility that I, as an inhabitant, could cut the rental fee I'd have to pay when repairs aren't done. this is allowed by law - to force estate firms to inally do the repairs - ecause money is when they are hurt most.
But now, we have a problem : These blocks are paid by the government.
And they just can't or at least don't cut the rental fees.
So, the blocks are sold to another company, it cashes in the profits, does nothing, the blocks deteriorate even more - the block is sold to another company, which cashes in the fees, does nothing, sells it again ...
And the goverment is helpless, cannot do anything against them, and it's only a matter of time until the blocks are so much eroded nobody can live in them.
Then they must be teared down - on PUBLIC costs, of course ! - because the very last estate compny in this "monopoly chain" will most likel have gone bancrupt alrteady (here in Cologne we had a similar case like this already !) - and all those who have been within this chain are rejoicing, because they have fully exploited the state, cashed in the profits, and everyone's happy (on their side).
The system that stands behind this is very clear and simple to be put into a single sentence I once read long ago :
"Privatize the profits - Socialize the Losses !"
The private firms cash in all of the profits -
- whereas all of the losses are turned so that the public must fulfill them.
The easiest example of this are mines. The profits o the miney are privatized, but the losses in form of "Renaturation" and restoration are put upon the public.
An the government often does it even freelym, because they often fall prey to the argument that "otherwie, jobs will get lost".
Miney are much, much, much much much LESS profitable if the companies which are exploiting them would take the "Renaturation" of them into ccount.
But no-one usually does. Mines are just abandoned. as open holes. All profits taken.