Dear Landrights4all,

First I need to comment about the terms you used: "noblesse oblige" means "nobility obliges" -with authority comes responsibility. I believe that the expression you were after was "Laissez-faire", meaning "let it be" -let people do what they want.

There is a myth as if the "left" has to do with the poor. Nothing is further than the truth. The "left" indeed believes in social solidarity, but instead of solidarity with poor people, it is solidarity with the "poor class", which is but a name for a particular club, consisting mostly of white-collar intellectuals, some of which being quite rich themselves! When a football club is named after a particular animal it doesn't turn its players into that animal and when a club calls itself "the poor" or "the working-class", it doesn't automatically turn its members into being poor or into people who actually work.

Calling the Left "bleeding heart" and the Right "patronizing" are propaganda stereotypes divorced from reality. If anything, in reality it is usually the reverse where the Left is patronizing and the Right is bleeding heart.

Now to the subject-matter:

The way to get the majority to support the poor people in earnest (rather than the "poor class"), is through education, dispelling the Marxist propagandist myth of social classes.

A safety-net, within reason, IS in the true interest of the majority because:
1) no one is immune from bad fortune.
2) it is both unpleasant and unsafe to live around others who are desperate and hungry.

Once you feel safe enough that your basic needs are going to be met no matter what, then (and only then) you can proceed to have creative ideas, like the ones you mentioned and others. There isn't even a need to PROPOSE creative responses because people all over, once no longer under the pressure of survival, will find plenty of them anyway.

I'm proposing an unconditional safety-net through the operation of a negative income tax that ensures your basic needs.