Published this week a fascinating ethnographic study of post-communist societies in eastern and central Europe: why did friendships which had endured the toughest of trials under communism fracture in the face of economic change? The author says that the answer is in the idea of deservingness.
I am sure this has been repeated so many times and I can see it happening again, here as things get worse and worse you get people going even more commie, we need to give people more free stuff, more money in their pockets, tax the rich, put up the vat this is mostly pushed by the political elite pandering from votes from the masses they've kept improvrished
Then you get those who want more austerity, remove all these line items on the budget, shrink government, privatise what has been public industries, stop taxing the productive and people draw lines between the solutions mostly based on what would benefit them the most.
The only reason we having these arguments is because there is a money printer that can move capital from one person to another without people having to agree to a transfer, if we never had that these debates would exist but would not be so divisive because you can only live within the capital available
I hope that if you have a hard money where everyone knows the rules can't easily be changed and you need to commit energy and resources to get it will take away this need to dictate where funds must go and people will just focus on the funds they can acquire and let their market decisions reflect what they believe
If you want to help others fine, use your own money and give directly
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