Conservatives hate these not because they don’t work, but that they shouldn’t work. They insist that the only thing that matters is piety and hard work. If those aren’t enough, you just aren’t pious enough and aren’t working hard enough, even if the work literally crippled you that you cannot do as much of it as you did before.
It is entirely about being cruel and evil as a policy.
“Without the threat of being thrown out onto the street, my workers won’t put up with as much mistreatment.”
If you have kids and aren’t rich, you literally can’t go into business for yourself in the US…if you fail that means your family becomes homeless and loses their health care.
The cruelty and evil helps the rich control the rest of us.
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a – rather long winded – story, co-authored by Mark Twain, about a family who inherits something like 80,000 acres of [worthless] land in east Tennessee. They spend years trying to scheme their way to wealth by selling the land, only to completely fail and ultimately lose it due to unpaid property taxes. The story is satire but it’s a sad one.
It’s about poor people who imagine themselves to be rich people in waiting. If not for this one pesky little obstacle, which actually turns out to be a lifetime full of obstacles. Because the easist way to get rich is to be rich and the hardest way to get rich is to not be rich.
On some level, this is how the average Republican sees themselves: a rich person in waiting. And they would finally get there if not for all those OTHER poor people who keep “stealing” all the “wealth”.
