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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
For argument sake, I don't think that'd be awful if the place wasn't funded by the government and completely unattached to the welfare system.
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It's something that could work on paper but not in practice. There would always be abuse, especially if it was privately owned.
We only have to look how cruelly we treat people on benefits to see that a workhouse would go the same way as they did back then.