Claims: in social safety net

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17 Dec 2025
A system functions well when people are immunized from real bad luck that is not the consequence of their bad decision-making.

My argument would be a system functions really well when people are immunized from real bad luck, right? Things that they – it's not the consequence of their bad decision-making. It's actually, you know, you happen to get a tumor because of a genetic vulnerability or an encounter with some chemical that you had no ability to know was there.

17 Dec 2025
Immunizing people from the downstream effects of their own bad decisions leads to the evolution of civilization into a quagmire.

But that as soon as you start immunizing people from the downstream effects of their own bad decisions where they had better decisions that were available to them, you just get the evolution of civilization into a quagmire.

27 Oct 2017
The removal of protections for people will lead to a reliance on charity and the creation of pauper states.

Yeah, and you take away protections for people, and they will get to a point where the only thing they can rely on is charity. I mean, we see it already with GoFundMes for healthcare stuff and all that shit. You see the beginnings of pauper states beginning.