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Originally Posted by u-Bob
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.
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did you notice that i didnt use any of those labels like socialist, capitalist etc?
i described what i consider a society worth living in - no matter what people call it
but: you know that "voluntarily" many things will not work. Would i donate part of my income voluntarily to help children (i actually do that for christmas), schools, unemployed etc?
probably not and most other probably neither
am i ok that my government does that with my taxes?
yes