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Creating a hugely expensive, onerous, and almost certainly cruel nationwide bureaucracy to somehow task, monitor, and manage millions of wildly differently abled people as they do 20 hours of weekly community service... ... to address a 'feeling' that someone may be getting something for nothing.

Common Sense is by definition a reaction to something without thinking about it deeply or absorbing any new information.

It's a great book!

The household budget analogy glosses over households having a mortgage, and hence debt for investment. Traditional conservatism appeals most strongly to people who are too rich or too old to have a mortgage. Right-wing populism attempts to also retail it to people who are too poor to get a mortgage.