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Not all, but many of these concerns are drummed up by people that want to add every conceivable resistance to wealth redistribution possible, and the rubes that
by chefandy 3y ago
Not all, but many of these concerns are drummed up by people that want to add every conceivable resistance to wealth redistribution possible, and the rubes that believe their fabricated justification. Drug testing for food and housing assistance is a great example. A fraction of the amount of money spent gets “saved” and the rare addict thrown off will probably cost the system more money as a homeless addict. Ultimately, it comes down to contempt for people who have less, and wanting to see them humiliated.
- ponow 3y agoYes, wealth redistribution is genteel theft and should be thwarted at every turn.
- AllegedAlec 3y agoPlease stop hitting that straw man. My hay fever's starting to play up.
- sha2468 3y agoAn effective test for determining if reading an opinion is a waste of your time is: watch for language that assigns an explanation to the behavior of others. Basically: they don’t describe what happened. They describe how other people are less good. “These concerns are drummed up by people who what to add every conceivable resistance to wealth redistribution possible” Not the language of an open hearted soul. I’m going to default to “unconvincing argument” as the infinitely more plausible explanation.
- chefandy 3y ago> watch for language that assigns an explanation to the behavior of others. K > Not the language of an open hearted soul. Found some.
- HumblyTossed 3y agoAmazing the number of people on HN who dislike any measure of helping those less fortunate.
- anamax 3y agoAmazing the number of people on HN take any criticism of some program as dislike for helping those less fortunate.
- whythre 3y agoIf what you consider evil is standing in the way of Marxist utopia, well bud, I think you have your moral heuristic exactly, murderously wrong.
- kiba 3y agoWe shoulda leave words like Marxist utopia out of conversations, even communism and capitalism. It shortcut people's thinking. That said, welfare programs are probably more efficient if they applied more broadly to society as opposed to adding paperwork barriers to people applying for aids.
- chefandy 3y agoEvil is a useless term unless you’re discussing fictional super villains or religion. If you think basic assistance is a Marxist utopia, well bud, I think you need to look utopia up in the dictionary and learn what Marxism is from a different source than Newsmax.
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- phone8675309 3y agoNot everything slightly to the left of Genghis Khan is Marxist you buffoon