@vgr you mean because better info gets to the market about what people want if they spend their luxury money on goods and services?
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@drethelin No, because it frames redistribution as Randian burden freely borne rather than paying society back for use of shared resources - Show replies
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@themattsimpson Not people, Randians!
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.@themattsimpson Which they should. I prefer impersonal civic institutions to personal ones as far as possible.
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@themattsimpson Yes. The whole reason safety nets are needed is that communities take care of their own in part by dumping on out-groups.
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@themattsimpson In-group/out-group framing of goodwill creates a garbage (CS sense) class of outcaste unfortunates who belong nowhere.
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@themattsimpson Often active predation and dispossession.
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@vgr the basic argument is: disease isn't distributed according to personal merit, so why should its amelioration be? - Show replies
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