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> If governments would just let people be, poverty would be eliminated. In fact, poverty is the pinnacle achievement of government. This is either breathtaking
by blahedo 16y ago
> If governments would just let people be, poverty would be eliminated. In fact, poverty is the pinnacle achievement of government.
This is either breathtakingly naïve or terrifically disingenuous. Human history shows us many times and places that had little or no government intervention, and such milieux weren't exactly the utopias that lzw seems to claim. When governments "just let people be", we get robber barons, rapacious working conditions, and a beaten-down underclass. The golden age of the middle class in the US occurred in the decades following labor reform, regulation, and the social safety net; and I don't even need to claim that this correlation is causative to cite it as a counterexample to lzw's patently absurd suggestion here.
- lzw 16y agoOF course, as the product of a government school, you believe what you were taught, and you think as you were taught to think, and therefore, simply pointing out obvious history is, to your unthinking mind "absurd". You trot out nonsense like "robber barrons" ignoring the fact that robber barrons were actually a good thing, and were nigher robbers, nor barrons, and did more to increase the standard of living of the poorest in this country than any of the socialist nonsense your addled brain endorses. You are a good cow, and you just mooed, and you are offended that someone might not want to be a cow. Well, the time of your slaughter is getting close, I hope you're nice and fat for the farmer. Me? I've left the farm. Life's to short to try to educate cows.