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 Originally Posted by d0zer
This brings us back to the idea of welfare, that we want a society that has a decent/ok base standard for all, instead of the super rich and the 3rd world all in one society.
A really basic critique of government is that the value we get from it comes at a very high cost. It does things inefficiently, often grossly so. The decent/ok base standard that it attempts to provide for all comes at a cost many times that of the actual benefits received. For example, governments usually attempt to provide for the poor and infirm by putting up very harsh barriers to capital accumulation, the very thing that needs to happen to third world shitholes as quickly as possible, and the very thing that enables standards of living to skyrocket. The level of capital accumulation is really the only thing differentiating rich countries like Canada from the newly-industrializing third world shitholes like Cambodia (my current location).
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