[The Urban Sombrero]

You mean from having to go to work? (See Franklin "A penny saved is a penny earned")

Let's see, world population circa 2013...7.125 billion, of which around 4.5% live in United States. Now, around the mountains of Appalachia, the New Deal surely did produce cyclical poverty and a fair amount of folks who view "work" as figuring out how to live off the government. True enough. However, poor people often work, mopping the floor Bill Gates walks across, making the bed Zuckerberg sleeps in at a five star hotel, etc. No sin or shame in that. A married couple who both work full time at Walmart (if possible as Walmart likes "parties") will barely escape the poverty line if they have a few kids, etc. And, in broader perspective, as the world doesn't end at Pikeville, the overwhelming majority of the world's populace are poor not because some Appalachian small business owner makes a couple hundred grand a year with seventeen employees, but because the flow of resources and allocation of resources is skewed and because corruption is rampant and because a hundred other reasons that include " too sorry to work" as a miniscule fraction of the whole.