system
A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
But that is simply not true. Enabling a person to become a customer and tax payer is much more beneficial to both society and the economy than having someone who only racks up costs on the form of healthcare, social care and/or the prison system.
gpt
Capitalism isn't efficient or intelligent in that regard, and in the US powers that rely on a large pool of easily importable or very cheap itinerant labor have a massively outsized government representation - this is why the less populated agricultural or natural extraction economy states are mostly conversative Republicans, and why Republicans are broadly against quality of life improvements: they would make their rich constituents' businesses less profitable.

An educated, cared for person is a great office worker, but a very big new expense for an ag or oil corp. Much cheaper to chew up an employee, discard them and simply get a new one.