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It is a combination of how people look at employment, and how people look at government Many(most) people have this entitlement mentality where by government,
by the_ancient 12y ago
It is a combination of how people look at employment, and how people look at government
Many(most) people have this entitlement mentality where by government, society, employers "owe them".
Employment is simply you selling your labor to the highest bidder. Company X needs Y labor done for them, you have the ability to perform that labor so you agree to a wage where by said labor gets done.
Nothing more. It is not a "family" you are not entitled to a job, or benefits of any type.
As for government, the only function government has is to prevent aggressive actions against me and my property and to provide a peaceful method of conflict resolution (aka courts)
It is not to inject itself in to the voluntary agreements of me and my employer, or anyone else.
- mikeash 12y agoDid you even read my comment? You just declared a bunch more stuff with no justification, as if you were reciting incontrovertible facts.
- NateDad 12y agoThe job of the government is to help us make our world a better place. If the job of government was just to resolve conflict, we'd have no roads, no bridges, no public education, we'd all be working 100 hour weeks for a pittance, and the world would be a really really awful place that none of us would like to live in. To think otherwise is just foolishness.
- the_ancient 12y agoAhh the classic "Who will build the roads" Fallacy To think government was the reason for any of things you site it ignorant is best. You really need to study history more.
- NateDad 12y agoHistory? Like the New Deal? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal
- splintercell 12y agoNew Deal simply exacerbated the Great Depression instead of helping to fix it. Its like you give a patient poison and then when he gets more sick you say "You see how much you really needed my medicine". Lets say we do wanna study the effect of Government on Great Depression, what would be the falsifiability criteria for that?