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>people need jobs If tax payers are going to pay for those jobs why not just cut out the middle man?
by wnevets 9y ago
>people need jobs
If tax payers are going to pay for those jobs why not just cut out the middle man?
- tialaramex 9y agoThe answer to that is a belief with one name and two sides. "Protestant Work Ethic". As a belief among those who are going to do the jobs the PWE is a psychological trick that gives humans a sense of self-worth through their labour. I say trick because intellectually our existence is clearly pointless. For the tax payer PWE is a belief that this labour improves those doing it and so making them work for the money is an inherent good. It is perhaps especially ironic that the US population believes so strongly in the PWE while at the same time it is unusually gullible about pseudo-Christian theologies that emphasise words over deeds, the literal antithesis of the PWE.
- Can_Not 9y agoThere's actually a lot of things that aren't being solved by the free market where tax funded efforts could be of substantial benefit to society (more than just the added jobs), but that's another topic altogether.