RE: https://noauthority.social/@inscius/113372709312316825

When I was in school, my family qualified for reduced-price school lunches (not zero-price "free" lunches). When I got to high school, the formula changed, so for a couple of years, I rarely had lunch ... but the food had also changed, so lunch was often disgusting. We're talking roughly half a century ago.

Yes, the US had (has) families where for whatever reason money / food ran out before the month ran out and some where they can't always afford school lunch. We try to give limited assistance for the sake of the kids, while trying not to reward mismanagement or incompetence. I think we likely do a poor job of both, but that's probably built in once you have sufficient population and area.

(Here's where someone will want to jump in with some anti-capitalist saying. To that person I say keep it to yourself. Humans have never yet had a system deployed to a large and diverse group of people over a large area that handled both of those things well while still allowing people to have individual choices. Therefore, if you think "You don't hate Mondays, you hate capitalism" is anything other than ignorant, you need to read some accounts of people's lives under the USSR and its hostage states.)