Dolists were the poorest members of Havenite society. They were given a Basic Living Stipend, part of the Economic Bill of Rights, as a way to ensure social justice of a kind. Many believed that this removed any motivation to work and so accounted for the substantial number of Dolist whose parents had also been Dolists. The gerneral ineffectual structures of the People's Republic, such as its educational system, caused economic stagnation which contributed to unemployment and to the size of the Dolist segment of the population.