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> For psychological health, people need to have the opportunity to be self reliant. Why does the noble level of "self reliance" always happen to be exactly whe
by hakfoo 4y ago
> For psychological health, people need to have the opportunity to be self reliant.
Why does the noble level of "self reliance" always happen to be exactly where other people don't have to pay taxes directly to sustain others? Surely we should go further, and tear up municipal roads and utilities. People would feel so much more independent if they had to spread their own asphalt and wire their own substation.
Realistically, there's a psychological value in dependency, particularly in understood dependency. If you have to think of yourself as beholden to others in some way, it incentivizes even the most self-centered of us to ramp up the civility and empathy.
- mc32 4y agoIt’s an innate force. People want to survive and excel on their own. Most mammals are competitive. Maybe we can extirpate that drive by creating a dependency on the state and sedating people via various means, probably, but it’s not our innate nature past infancy.
- eggy 4y agoNo, self-reliant people make enough income to pay taxes to have municipal roads made and this employs people to work for the municipality. A majority of toll roads were private in the 1790s on, and a lot were not subsidized by the government; they were capitalized by selling shares, however, people would 'shunpike' (go around to avoid paying the toll), so this cut into dividends. I believe in having empathy and civility without the notion of an IOU lingering over me, but from having principles and respect for my fellow human.