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>Every single social welfare program is "messing with the free market" I mean, saying that a human life is worth something so you can't just treat people as ex
by ActorNightly 6y ago
>Every single social welfare program is "messing with the free market"
I mean, saying that a human life is worth something so you can't just treat people as expendable labor is "messing with the free market" technically, but thats a very low boundary. Social welfare addresses the lower tiers of income, specifically to aid people in basic needs of housing, food, healthcare and education. Those people aren't putting any significant money into the economy.
Unionization on the other hand is selective inflation of labor value in certain areas. Thats definitely messing with the free market. Didn't work for France very well, not going to work for US.
- scubbo 6y agoAnd where do you suppose that the money to fund those social welfare programs comes from? Not the free market, that's for sure. EDIT to be more clear-and-explicit and less snarky - taxes are an interference with the free market. I am making the claim that a high-functioning society that cares for its citizens and ensures a good quality of life must necessarily a) impose taxes, in order to b) provide social welfare programs. In particular, I claim that no purely-free-market motivated company will address social welfare needs as comprehensively as public programs would (though I do concede that, for some subsets of society, some companies will often do so more efficiently than public programs would, at the cost of non-universal coverage).
- chmod775 6y ago> Didn't work for France very well, not going to work for US. Right. Living in France sucks! /s
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