you're really really going to have to start actually explaining what you mean here for me to believe it at all.
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like give me some actual examples of what you mean by philanthropy compared to the government interacting in the same field
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See Jacobin article I started with. Idea of universal healthcare being funded by charity. Godawful idea rife with moral hazard.
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universal healthcare isn't really pay-back-to-society the way infrastructure is, tho', it's more a matter of risk pooling
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we don't want people's fortunes to be determined by blind luck so we agree to insure each other against getting sick
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the reasons to insist everyone has a duty to pay in are more strictly actuarial than (directly) moral
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how is it morally convenient? (I wholeheartedly *support* the principle of universal health care, btw, if that was unclear)
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You can avoid the hard conversation about the motivations of charity in relationship to community
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aren't you avoiding the hard conversations about the motivations of control and power?
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I am trying to provoke em. No better way than propose impersonal government institutions as aspiration direction
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that's not a hard conversation at all - personally I don't trust charity any further than I can throw it. & I usually *do*.
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