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American religion is one whole history of guilt trips.
Of course, just saying this brings potential problems to mind. No, on third or fourth thought, the social-services system is corrupt from the top. Perhaps the system really needs to be reinvented from the top down. No, I mean a top-down reinvention of the system of qualifying for and receiving benefits, based on service rather than shame. And to do that properly, we'll need to keep the whole system, or at least most of it, under fully-accountable public authority.