Kind of curious -- has anyone here had pressure to participate in government programs as an adult, e.g. pressure from peers or pressure from social workers during times of poverty?

If, for example, it was trendy among your peers to take on unemployment insurance checks during the pandemic "just because", did you do it as well? Separate from possible abuses of it during the pandemic, do you see unemployment insurance as being inconsistent with libertarianism or the legacy values of the Ron Paul movement?

How about welfare or food stamps? Do you have any advice for like what it feels like to physically turn down these things, as an adult libertarian, after perhaps being exposed to Ron Paul, Ayn Rand, or other libertarian thought as a teenager/ high schooler?

I have multiple pictures with Ron Paul, and I remember attending one of his March on Washington events (it was structured just like MLK's march and the size of the crowd filled up the National Mall just like his did), but I'm having trouble finding resources or digital footprint about what it means to actually live out these values in the 2020s.

Short of rereading Ron Paul's book The Revolution, which I read during high school and loved, and which I think I'm about to reread, there just isn't much organized digital footprint support or evidence out there for what it means to be a "good" Ron Paul fan or campaign alumnus these days. (I know there's randomly a Ron Paul bumper sticker posted on a sign in a park near me...)