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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @LibertyLuminary 20 Feb 2023 \ on: How will helpful public services work on a Bitcoin Standard? bitcoin
"Who will fund general infrastructure? Who will fund disability checks for parents with children that have mental disorders or sicknesses? Who will make the education system in an area where they are not as affluent financially to be functional?"
Who funds it today? Why does infrastructure go away without a monopolistic protection agency threatening people into obedience?
Who is responsible for educating children? Who brought those children into existence? I have 6 children and none of them have spent a single day within government funded schools. Why should I demand that society around me is responsible for MY offspring? That is MY responsibility. With liberty comes the burden of individually accountability.
Under no circumstances ever, would I apply for unemployment or disability checks from a coercive regime. I would only draw from a policy which I have voluntarily invested into, such as a private insurance agreement collaborative that guarantees such coverages. Any such collaborative that is based upon force or coercion, is invalid and amounts to nothing more than theft, and is therefore unfit to be used according to my values.
You might ask - What if I cannot afford any such collaborative policy? Then hopefully my own family or friends may be able to assist in my time of need, just as I would for them in their time of need (according to whatever ability I might have). But I could not rightfully impose that upon them as some sort of moral obligation or duty. And I would NEVER call upon the government mafia to draw weapons and threaten or compel anybody else to provide their resources to me. Most people who do draw from government redistribution schemes would also rarely endorse such harsh methods as calling on them to draw weapons etc... But the practical fact of the matter is the same even though they hide behind the façade of being an "innocent citizen."
My needs are MY responsibility. Providing for my children is part of that because I brought them into the world. Anything beyond that is based upon individual prerogative and consent.
I personally believe that being charitable and compassionate are valuable human traits. And I encourage them. But I make no such claim of valuable traits somehow being misconstrued as intrinsic human "rights" or obligations from one stranger to another just because we are of the same species.
My needs are MY responsibility. Providing for my children is part of that because I brought them into the world. Anything beyond that is based upon individual prerogative and consent.
Right there: pure truth.
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