MattG comments on Stupid Questions September 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion
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In the U.S., what happens to people who cannot survive without assistance (like people without the dexterity to feed themselves, or even people without the ability to keep a job or fill out paperwork) who do not have a family or the means to trade for help? What, physically, keeps them from starving to death?
There's some sense of a social safety net that catches people. Sometimes it doesn't catch them and they die.