 A different objection focuses on the alleged risk of unfairness in enacting a social minimum. Specifically, the unfairness objection is that public provision of a social minimum might lead some people to make inadequate effort to help themselves and that this is unfair to those whose efforts ultimately make the necessary resources available. Note that the behavior allegedly caused by social minimum programs might also or alternatively be considered a bad thing because of its effect on the benefit recipient, rather than (just) because of any unfairness to others. This thought motivates what one might call the dependency objection to enactment of a social minimum, in view of the alleged passivity or “dependency” induced by reliance on welfare benefits (see, for example, Tocqueville 1835, Murray 1984; see also Humboldt 1852). However, a good deal of what can be said in reply to the fairness objection also applies to this dependency objection, and so we will not lose much by focusing just on the fairness objection for present purposes.