There was this video that circulated around Facebook about a month or so ago. The video was talking about a "study" of poverty. It was saying that poor people behave differently but they are not poor because they behave so that way. It is the other way around that they behave differently because they are poor. The "study" concluded that poor people will forego their different behavior if they are alleviated from being poor. Thus, the "study" suggested the idea of universal basic income.

I really wish it works that way but it does not seem so. We have a government program that gives minimal monthly allowance to poor families. After few years of implementing that, I am hearing feedbacks exactly the same as you mentioned about people becoming complacent. I no longer know how to help people like that.

On the other end, I cannot deny the fact that we have so many people struggling to make their lives better in spite of rampant corruption in the government.

wow you could be a politician! lol. great non-answer!

No, thank you about being a politician. And I mean that me-time. It's just how it is. Get up when I want to, have a cone of ice cream for an hour or longer in a convenient store, anything that goes to kill time.