09-19-2018, 03:28 PM
(09-18-2018, 08:22 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I'd say there's a difference between earning one's money with the use of ones particular skills and talents and one receiving an equal portion of money distributed to them by government officials regardless of ones skills and talents. How many factors contribute to the difference's between people, peoples wages and peoples over all wealth/net worth?
Where on this earth is there an economy that provides anything like that? Maybe a monastery works that way … maybe.
This is your blind spot. You extrapolate social welfare support to some idealized equal distribution of wealth and assets. It isn't. What it most closely resembles is insurance, where some level of support is provided in the event of some negative event like illness or a positive event that needs support like childbirth. This merely removes uncertainty, which promotes entrepreneurialism, among other unexpected benefits.
What's expected of you? Pay your taxes, which will admittedly be higher than they are today. Do you get anything? Yes: healthcare, including things our insurance market doesn't want to provide, good roads, schools and other communal assets. Things you buy today are available for you to access at no additional cost. In some countries, lawyers are a social service, just like social workers.
No one's an island, and it's high time we quit pretending. Sharing the cost of things we all need is called SMART. Having everyone pay solo is truly DUMB.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.