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> If the idea is that the public sector’s wonderful services are supposed to help the private sector flourish, well, that whole idea doesn’t seem to be working.

Are you implying that social programs are here to help to private sector?



"once you have universal health care and every possible social safety net, then people will be able to take risks without fear of failing and innovate like crazy"

...so the logic goes


That's a pretty decent paraphrasing of arguments for UBI that I've seen just on this site, actually.


And there's no evidence that logic doesn't hold. It's not like Canada introduced universal health care 20 years ago so we can see the effects of just that.


It’s what people say when you complain about a very heavy social bureaucracy.




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