If you have less to lose, you're more willing to take risks.
Thus having the government take care of basic welfare and health care benefits frees people to be entrepreneurial, in a sense.
Compare to the US, where people are tied to a job based on the benefits they have through that job, and before the health care legislation's removal of preexisting conditions clauses, if you had a medical condition and lost your job, you could very easily end up in financial distress.
Personally, I would have transitioned to being independent a full year earlier if it wasn't for health care coverage issues.
Thus having the government take care of basic welfare and health care benefits frees people to be entrepreneurial, in a sense.
Compare to the US, where people are tied to a job based on the benefits they have through that job, and before the health care legislation's removal of preexisting conditions clauses, if you had a medical condition and lost your job, you could very easily end up in financial distress.
Personally, I would have transitioned to being independent a full year earlier if it wasn't for health care coverage issues.