This is why Universal Income makes sense. There can be no cheating if everyone is eligible.
To put things in perspective, the various federal and state welfare agencies in Australia employ something like 200K bureaucrats to allocate and monitor welfare handouts.
If they were all made redundant, the money saved would add a significant amount to the available welfare budget.
I worked as a consultant at several of these agencies and I can assure you that most of the jobs there were bullshit.
One coworker described these places as “daycare for adults”.
To put things in perspective, the various federal and state welfare agencies in Australia employ something like 200K bureaucrats to allocate and monitor welfare handouts.
If they were all made redundant, the money saved would add a significant amount to the available welfare budget.
I worked as a consultant at several of these agencies and I can assure you that most of the jobs there were bullshit.
One coworker described these places as “daycare for adults”.