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"Opinions like this are why we can't have nice things in the USA. People look at some subgroup getting a benefit and are encouraged to think "Why should they ge
by rsync 6y ago
"Opinions like this are why we can't have nice things in the USA. People look at some subgroup getting a benefit and are encouraged to think "Why should they get this thing when I get nothing? These people don't deserve it""
That is the price of diversity.
Diversity, which is neither bad nor good, has benefits and costs.
My very diverse country invented jazz music and snowboarding and the Internet. We also lack the social trust and cohesion of much less diverse countries like Japan or the Scandinavian countries at whose social welfare programs we marvel.
Personally, I'll take the jazz music and snowboarding even if it means fighting over what should be basic components of the welfare state.
- thomastjeffery 6y agoSo eliminating poverty would eliminate diversity? Nonsense.
- rsync 6y agoI'm not sure who you are responding to here - I said nothing like that.
- thomastjeffery 6y ago> That is the price of diversity. > We also lack the social trust and cohesion of much less diverse countries like Japan or the Scandinavian countries at whose social welfare programs we marvel. > Personally, I'll take the jazz music and snowboarding even if it means fighting over what should be basic components of the welfare state. So what I took you to be saying is that "jazz music and snowboarding" come from a diversity present because of the lack of social programs like welfare. What "diversity" is that if not that which includes poverty? What I'm trying to say is that it's ridiculous to assert that "jazz music and snowboarding" come from the lack of a welfare state. Nowhere do you illustrate how we can't have both.