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What happens when the results of an apparently positive action turn out to create a situation that is far worse than if nothing had been done at all?
For example, the immediate benefit of giving money to people who need it in our society is to help them and provide for them in the short term.
The perverse consequences can be that the individual becomes addicted to free money, drops out of the workforce, becomes dependent to handouts and loses his pride, self-esteem and self-respect. The individual ends up much worse off that if nothing had been done at all.
In society, the primary reason for social programs, giving money to the less fortunes, is always an attempt to help them to improve the quality of their lives. But the perverse consequences can become a lifetime of dependency and frustrated potential.
