government welfare programs don't seem to be the answer.
Ultimately they are not. Ultimately the answer is for the human race to decide collectively that poverty is not acceptable. And when i say this, i am not speaking about "political solutions" (by which i mean the state or a meta-state like the UN implementing a policy) i mean a more fundamental transformation in human society and human nature.
And government has every right, IMO, like a parent, to say "If I support you then you'll live the way I think is right".
Hmm, you oppose government on the basis that it is force, but think that their use of coersion is right in this case?
The way i see it is, if we must have government at all, it is to facilitate our goals and make our lives easier. The government does not have the resources to do this without limit, and so a "bottomless entitlement" of any kind is not practical.
It does not help the situation for the government to impose conditions on assistance that they offer. These conditions are imposed ostensibly to "educate" welfare recipients, but the only thing recipients learn is how to be powerless and hopeless in the face of "the system." Very few come out of this system with the ability to successfully play our economic games.
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Ultimately they are not. Ultimately the answer is for the human race to decide collectively that poverty is not acceptable. And when i say this, i am not speaking about "political solutions" (by which i mean the state or a meta-state like the UN implementing a policy) i mean a more fundamental transformation in human society and human nature.
And government has every right, IMO, like a parent, to say "If I support you then you'll live the way I think is right".
Hmm, you oppose government on the basis that it is force, but think that their use of coersion is right in this case?
The way i see it is, if we must have government at all, it is to facilitate our goals and make our lives easier. The government does not have the resources to do this without limit, and so a "bottomless entitlement" of any kind is not practical.
It does not help the situation for the government to impose conditions on assistance that they offer. These conditions are imposed ostensibly to "educate" welfare recipients, but the only thing recipients learn is how to be powerless and hopeless in the face of "the system." Very few come out of this system with the ability to successfully play our economic games.