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[J.Stuart] Mill feared that if welfare was too easily doled out, generations of poor people would be born into families weaned of a work ethic. Even more pernicious, he thought that higher welfare payments would only promote higher birthrates. Thus, Mill rejected socialist and romantic proposals for raising relief benefits or wages. Such normative efforts ignored positive information about human tendencies.

Todd G. Buchholz, in New ideas from dead economists

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