Higher levels of self worth, empowerment, fulfillment and achievement can be achieved through receiving.
That is incorrect. self-esteem, empowerment, fulfillment, a sense of achievement, they all come from achievement.
You can bet there are millions of middle class people who wouldn't have the level of self worth, empowerment and fulfillment if it weren't for the social programs available to them and their parents. How many single mothers would have made anything of themselves before these programs and under a system like the one advocated by you? How many immigrants would have run successful businesses if it weren't for government help?
well the obvious answer is "all of them", considering that we are not judging off of a raw, but relative standard. but here you are arguing a misnomer, and trying to claim that later achievement = earlier receipt.
Again, one can argue all they want that some people take advantage of welfare etc.
well it's not just that - it's that we use welfare to trap them in poverty and low productivity, thereby ensuring that they will
never achieve enough to reach self-fulfillment, empowerment, etc.
But the collective progress made in the last 100 years is all the proof needed to show that they serve an extremely beneficial purpose.
:lol: yeah. if there is one thing that leaps to mind about the experience with our social welfare state over the past few decades, it's "success"
success at destroying stable family formation
success at creating a permanent underclass
success at trapping people to the measure of their birth
success at taking the most dynamic, charitable, creative, industrial people to roam the earth and turning them into permanent dependents, trapped in self-destructive decisions with only resentment for those who aid them.
yeeahaw, let's have some more of
that :roll:
