The Stigma Of Not Working
12 min readJul 18, 2019
It’s unpopular to admit that you don’t like to work.
Whenever employment is brought up in a conversation, inevitably a conservative actor will talk about how providing resources to the unemployed is a terrible idea. We could be talking about anything from the work requirements in safety-net programs to the fear that a universal basic income (UBI) will encourage laziness. Conservatives will claim that “helping the…