For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."
The wisdom of Almighty God shines in this apostolic injunction.  Of course, this law can be ignored for a time, as long as the stored-up capital of previous working generations remains to be passed out, dissipated, given away and wasted; but at last the poverty of a great nation will come as an armed man, and the entire society will pay the penalty in blood and tears.