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No, they weren’t. You’re dreaming about a time that never existed, or where it did exist was completely incapable of scaling and weathering economic downturns.
by alistairSH 4y ago
No, they weren’t. You’re dreaming about a time that never existed, or where it did exist was completely incapable of scaling and weathering economic downturns. It’s a common conservative narrative, but it simply isn’t based on reality.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/the-conservative-myth-of-a-social-safety-net-built-on-charity/284552/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/the-con...
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/american-social-policy-in-the-great-depression-and-wwii/ https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/...
- daenz 4y ago>You’re dreaming about a time that never existed, or where it did exist was completely incapable of scaling and weathering economic downturns. You can leave off "it never existed" if you immediately acknowledge that it did exist, but with constraints. If the constraints/scaling are what you care about, then make the case that everyone is better off with an inefficient system of coercion and perverse incentives, versus a system where people are giving their time and money willingly out of the goodness inside them.