There is an element in every society that is perfectly content to get more out -- than they put in. To the extent that a government can reduce that element, improving the society's efficiency, the better off everyone will become. When you make that element too comfortable, they're disinclined to contribute at all. IMO many western nations are encroaching, increasingly, into a zone where they're creating more people dependent upon the society than are contributing to it.
Ghandi was a hippie liberal.
