text: I'm not suggesting that we overlook the plight of the truly needy, but we need to be careful about providing incentives for economically irresponsible decisions.  There is a balance to be struck, and more, more, always more money is both tone deaf and fiscally suicidal.
  
  I don't mean to be snide about education delivering psychic rewards.  But the pursuit of psychic versus economic reward is a choice, and unless you have some way to also redistribute psychic rewards, the case for arbitrary economic redistribution seems to much more grasping and materialistic, not to mention unbalanced, than the idea that we live with our own choices.  
  
  The presence of an omnipotent government sticking its nose into things better left alone  is one of the dangerous ideas I gathered from reading BNW and 1984.  Making every snowflake feel special is a heart-warming idea, but an ugly, dysfunctional and ultimately bankrupt basis for public policy.