In the Old Testament the farmers were to let the poor pick up whatever was left over in the field, but they had to get up and get it.
“In the Old Testament the farmers were to let the poor pick up whatever was left over in the field, but they had to get up and get it.”
But that means they had to get their lazy asses to work, which in this context would be picking up freebies. That would have been racist and waging war on women.