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Originally Posted by MaDalton
i would refuse to live in a society that is only survival of the fittest.
i have no problem that my taxes are used to finance things like schools, streets, government, police and so on. i dont even have a problem with unemployement benefits and social welfare.
what i insist on is that "my" money is spent responsibly and that people are encouraged to not rely on benefits but move their asses. here i some room for improvement (mildly said)
but in general i believe that the 2 countries i come from and live in are pretty great compared to many other places
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A free market is not survival of the fittest. In a free market it's those who best serve their fellow human beings that make the biggest profits. In a free market you actually have an incentive to help your fellow human beings.
In a socialist economy, you have an incentive to do less than your fellow human beings because if you do more than the "average worker" does, your earnings get taken away from you by the state.
Voluntary donations are not prohibited in a free market. Voluntary transactions are what free markets are all about. If you want to voluntarily donate part of your earnings to a local school or a fund for children with special needs you are free to do so. The whole point of a free market is that you or the government can't force anyone to give away his earnings against his will.