I remember a few years ago a Samoan lady told me she wants to move to Australia because the government there pays 5 thousand dollars to give birth to a baby.... that’s the dumbest shit I ever heard, move to another continent just to get a few grand for a baby.
That's not the whole story. In summary: if you live in Australia and you decide you prefer not to work, you can resign and go into a government office and say "I have no money to pay my bills" and they'll start giving you $400USD per week to do absolutely nothing and this can last as long as you want it to. It never stops.
Now this is the base case, if you have one kid, it goes up, if you have another kid it goes up, if you're a single mother it goes up again etc etc.
If you can work the system properly you cab get $1000USD per week to do absolutely nothing for the Rest of your life, no questions asked.
This is why we pay 50% of our wages in tax.