The US is particularly prone to this pattern. Americans *like* a society built on benefactor-benefactee relationships of humility/gratitude as a basic building block. “Charitable person” is in the top 5 American archetypes. ESP religious and high-society subtypes.
Individual charity is fine and has a place in the scheme of things for those who opt-in to specific webs of mutual community obligations, like joining a religion. It’s just neither the whole solution or one that is even relevant to everybody.
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I’m fine with the law. Culture and religion I am deeply suspicious of. They are powerful primitive forces with great PR operations and closets full of skeletons.
End of conversation
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