Just substitute "the nanny state" and there are the same issues.  The EI program has "helped" the Maritimes into dependency.  I could go on and on with how we've "helped" the Indigenous into dependency (but it wouldn't survive the Civil censors).  And now there's talk about Guaranteed Annual Income...a "living wage" (so to speak) with no work required.  And free/safe drugs at the local Opium Harm Reduction Centre.