It’s a sin is it no that a country fou o individuals wi mair siller than a thousand bodies can spend in a lifetime is also fou o the maist haveles.

An too many o them puir souls are even mair haveles than oursels.

And it’s no doon tae pestilence, plague, conquest or war, nor even the economy, which maks it the bigger sin.

Translate:

haveles: destitute.

It’s a sin is it not that a country filled with the ridiculously wealthy also holds the most destitute.

And too many of those poor souls are even more destitute than ourselves.

And it’s not down to pestilence, plague, conquest or war, nor even the economy, which makes it the bigger sin.

′hɑvləs
The Scottish Word: haveles with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.

The Idle Poor.

It’s idle thinking if you are of the belief that handouts to those who have no work will encourage them into even more idleness. The idle poor is a pitiful prejudice. University of Leiden: A Free Basic Income Would Not Reduce Peoples Willingness to Work.

And there are studies that find that being poor in the first place is self-reinforcing without help. Cambridge University: Poverty, Trust and Social Distance, A Self-Reinforcing Poverty Trap.

I’ve only thrown in two links, sorry. If you want to be properly convinced you’ll have to find more, check they’re well run, done by organisations or individuals that are honest, unprejudiced and reliable and have a track record. And also nowadays sadly, not AI fakes. I read these things but I don’t keep reference details since I’m not an academic.