Classic bourgeois view of the proletariat: “While Correista candidate #Arauz has proposed giving $1000 checks to one million working-class #Ecuador|ians, #Pérez attacked plan on the grounds that poor citizens would spend all the money on beer in one day.” https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/06/yaku-perez-pachakutik-ecuador-us-coup/

There is a basic reason why liberal bourgeois regimes are so unwilling to give money to tor create jobs for the proletariat & so generous with bailouts to the rich: In a capitalist economy substantial increase in consumption by poor leads to inflation, which threatens capital. +

Whereas giving money to the capitalist class ensures that this money is then doled out to poor by way of loans, restricting consumption. The money that ends up in the pockets of rich sits nicely in investment portfolios, increasing the wealth of the elites. It’s not about beer: +

The liberal bourgeois regimes simply do not want the poor to consume in a manner that would threaten the capital.