For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."
IV. It injures the community.  It destroys initiative, diminishes industry, and propagates the worst element in society.  The idle part of the population of great cities are the canker of civilization, in which are bred and incubated every vice and crime.  Some, alas, must be cared for by others; but, when they are able-bodied, "the state that gives bread should compel labor"![15]