"Corporate welfare" is a real thing. Something to keep in mind, the next time -- and every time -- a politician or partisan goes on about the "travesty" of (pe

"Corporate welfare" is a real thing. Something to keep in mind, the next time -- and every time -- a politician or partisan goes on about the "travesty" of (personal) welfare from an "economic" perspective. And, this "corporate welfare" takes on many and many overlapping forms. For example, many children in this country (the U.S.) have health insurance, health care, and dental care through Medicaid and government programs. A lot of their parents are working. Personally, I don't begrudge this -- not to those children -- in the least. Good health is the foundation of a good life. That also means a productive life that contributes to our shared society. But, those jobs aren't paying those parents what it takes to support their families. Something that is arguably necessary for those people to be able to continue to work them. (And many of those parents, themselves, do not have health care coverage. Which, among many other things, also keeps them more vulnerable as a population.) It's getting hard for me to avoid using Amazon for some things. Local stores no longer carry them. And it sure is convenient (well, price/marketing manipulation and increasingly rough and unreliable shipping aside). But it feels like we are being funneled into an increasingly inescapable form of this social abuse, at the same time.