Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.

— Paulo Freire Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968)

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