QUOTE(Uncle Stu @ Mar 19 2019, 02:22)
Well, lets just say uncle is no fan of generalization. Especially the generalization of a group of people who have nothing in common except that they are relying on welfare. Even more if this generalization is only used to disparage these people as greedy little fuckers. And yes, that is the tendency of this post.
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My point is that things are better taken cared of if it's owned personally. Especially because people don't like it when the value of something they have is diminished in some ways. If you derive benefits from complete strangers that you don't care about, that's a different matter. People start taking things for granted, things like tax money.
That goes for everything, including personal finances, hence my belief that welfare & free healthcare was a mistake. If you need a safety net in life, that should have been your savings, your family, your connections. Not the government. The last thing people need is more government oversight. You say I generalize, but the fact of the matter is welfare and similar programs do in fact get constantly exploited. In the case of the USA by an increasingly dependent and indolent population who feel entitled to goods and services they didn't earn. To which I say, just cut it off or limit it. It got so bad in the USA that they issue foodstamps because the population would spend the money on stupid things (drugs, alcohol) otherwise.
Welfare/UBI/Free [x]! is a roundabout way of wealth redistribution, socialism. Which is an inherently selfish ideology. Less government dependence (and thus less government power) and more personal responsibility is what I'm after.
You may disagree and that's alright. These are
my opinions.
P.S. there is nothing wrong with pointing out trends. Blurting out "generalization!" doesn't make observations any less truthful. Yes you have to consider that people have their individual merits. A group of people aren't suddenly entirely bad because some of them are. That should be a given in these sort of conversations. However being willingly ignorant of problems in the system does more harm than good. Recognize problems where they show up, then fix them.
This post has been edited by Gahasa: Mar 22 2019, 16:25
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