death rates of white middle class American males

[SomeGuy]

Quote:OK, but what alternative are you suggesting?  Gaming the system, which is what you  are noting here, requires one to look broken to get money ... so they look broken.  Yes, the system gets scammed frequently.  A system that required no scamming, might solve a lot of the downside issues you see ... or not.  At some point, universal income, or something similar, will be tried out of desperation.  Then we'll know.

WTF?  I point out that we have effectively had years if not decades of experience with large numbers of people subsisting largely off of government checks and the evidence seems to suggest that many of those people basically rot away and you mention... "scamming"?  

Did your mother have any other children that lived?