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I'm no lover of the US founding fathers, but I've got to believe that many people began setting up responsible government as a way to protect individual rights and at the same time ensure individual freedom.# Not to act like a parasite.# Its pretty important to note that its parasitic nature revolves around its infiltration by selfish institutions, not because it was set up and designed to screw you over.# To what end?
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I`m no lover of the US founding fathers either, but they are the best thing that has ever happened to the US. Since then, it`s been a downfall.
What do you mean by selfish institutions? Politicians, I suppose? So they created an institution (government) supposed to protect people. Innocent and pure intent.
The fact that this innocent government was infiltrated by the very people who set it up with the best intentions seems to you as a problem of the infiltrating instutions? Get rid of selfish politicians/parties and the system will flourish? No, the system was designed with this very intention - to flourish as a tool of selfish and parasitic.
Of course they needed a good PR to sell their ideas as pure and innocent. But dont let that fool you.
Some more stuff about nature of the government and origins of the state:
Anatomy of the State
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So basically, charity from the rich will be the final safety-net for the poor?# I'm starving, so I'll rely on the good nature of those around me to eat?# Sounds Utopian to me.
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Well first, off - capitalism as the most efficient, effective and just system lets more people to escape poverty. You are not going to argue that more capitalist countries are richer than less capitalist countries? And the poor in a rich country are relatively better off that poor in poor countries?
Recently I have read an interesting article. It was about children of immigrants and children of the poor in the USA. The findings were - children of immigrants were FAR more likely to escape the poverty than children who were taught to depend on the welfare state. Children of immigrants had better working habbits (their parents often had 2 jobs), attended schools and put effort to improve their situation. On the other hands, kids of the american poor never wanted to work, and depended solely on the welfare payments. From their childhood, they were taught to be dependent.
Second - if you are totally helpless, then you depend on others, regardless of the political system. The thing is - capitalism creates more wealth therefore other people will have more funds to help you. Who is going to help the poor if there is no one around with free funds to help? See Africa. No one. Only citizens of richer countries can afford to help. In capitalist countries, even the poor (and I mean literally those at the bottom) can use products of capitalism poor in other countries cannot even dream bout (medical attention, infrastructure, accessible food and water etc.)
Third - if you arent helpless, there is no reason others should feed you. Whatever happened to personal responsibility for your own life?