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See, for me that is a problem. If a country truly wants to commit to tax payed healthcare for all, needs to provide it for its free citizens, not its worker dr
by nickik 10y ago
See, for me that is a problem.
If a country truly wants to commit to tax payed healthcare for all, needs to provide it for its free citizens, not its worker drones.
Its a problem of any Statist system that if the state does something, all the externalizes associated with it, are costs to the state. That typical solution is for the state to internalize/control these externalizes. Without some system to figure out what is to much, you are on a slippery slop.
That's the exact point Hayek made in the 'Road to Serfdom'. Not every state intervention will automatically mean that you slide into dictatorship, but rather he argued that if you logically respond to each problem with the natural solution of intervention you will end up in dictatorship. You need some higher level of thinking about the problem otherwise you have a problem.
His next 2 two books attempted then about how to design a system of law and governance that effectively balances the needs of individual freedom and state intervention. I don't think he was fully successful, but they are good books either way.