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I have looked and you are correct. When I talk about helping the needy through voluntary means many of my more progressive friends doubt it would work. We have been told this over and over in history but its a lie.
Americans are very generous.
I usually try to explain how wasteful government aid programs are and how terrible they are at avoiding grift. When you have private charities they are always gonna be better at figuring out who really needs help vs. who is just milking the system.
I've seen this over the years in churches and charities.
Here is another reframing: Government aid programs are not wasteful and the money goes right to where THEY want it to go, to them. THEY get their hands in the cookie jar and crumbs around their mouths, then deny the situation. Psychopaths one and all.
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One possibility is that voluntary charity orgs self-select for people that actually care about solving the problem.
Whereas government-run social services will select for people who want cushy jobs and prestigious titles and political careers. They aren't as likely to actually care about helping the poor.
(By select, I just mean the intentional or unintentional process by which these organizations end up staffing their positions)
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Yes, self-selection into the kinds of organizations and projects being done is rife in the system. However, how would you do it any other way. Other ways would involve the lack of freedom demonstrated by the bolsheviks.
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The point is that voluntary charities may solve the problems more efficiently because they tend to be staffed by people who actually care.
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Maybe better to say that they care about solving the problem using the resources they have on hand without having to take them away from somebody else forrcibly.
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That has to be the mechanism, because they have the same incentives to not actually solve problems as anyone else.
As many people have described, activism becomes an industry.
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That is very good discernment! Yes, activism has become an industry, NGOs, states and governments, DIE lecturers and newspapers, to say nothing of paid rioters. I love that observation.
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It's the logical outcome of the incentives. You raise money based on a problem existing, which means the money will dry up if the problem stops existing.
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That is the main difference between the state doing something and a private entity doing something. It is all in the incentives. Mises wrote a book called Bureauracy about just this issue. He tore the problem down to the studs and rebuilt it from the ground up. His conclusion was that the two would never meet because of the difference in incentives.
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This is another of the things they are hiding with all the propaganda and the MSM. People can’t see because of the veil in front of their eyes. THEY provide the veil with all the “news” that they feed the NPCs.
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I have noticed that the charities that have not bent the knee to the state may succeed at the project they are doing battle with and then adapt by going on to some sort of related project. There are some projects that will never be finished, though and the persist with the resources they have on hand.
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The state/gov has no business doing any of this. That's my thought.
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I think you are absolutely correct. They also have no business making railroads, roads or airports but they usurp those roles anyway, don’t they?
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Voluntarism is one sort of system that would work well. It is market and voluntary action orientated, no centralization going for it. Just thinking, though, how to keep the gangs from forming and taking over?
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Education. The gangs already exist. They are the state and the many cartels / families that control the state.
Socialism as an idea should be dead but it isn't because of very poor opposition to the ideas at their core.
The problem you state is real and its the same thing. Education and it must start with parents.
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Not just education. Virtue. Education will just make the gangs more sophisticated in how they extort others.
OK. But if the parents are feeding the children the same isht that the state feed them, then there is no escape from the merry go round. The parents have to teach them critical thinking and how to read and cipher. The kids can pretty much self-direct from there.
The biggest lie we are told is that the government CAN fix things. The mistake people make with communism and socialism is focusing on the evil people. Those systems and the state fails even when you have good smart people running them.
The market is a magical thing. Masses of people figuring out how to cooperate and solve problems for profit and for the pleasure of doing it. The state is a monopoly that attracts the worst types of people to abuse the monopoly powers. But they can't compete with the millions of minds that are the market.
The market is something that is largely ignored in education. Its a hive mind that has produced all that we value around us. Even the things the state has "built" (by theft) is really only possible because of the productivity of people voluntarily doing things for others for money.
I love Goodwill. They figured out how to make a business where you drop off your used crap and they train and hire people that struggle to find work. They make a profit off of this selling my old crap to someone else. I find gems at Goodwill stores. Its a beautiful example of the market solving problems.
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I think you know what the problem is, then. People have been indoctrinated into thinking the way that THEY want them to be channeled. Hive mind, controlled by the queen and no individual thinking for himself is perfect for the complete slave society. That is what they are aiming for with WEF, UN and EU. The ELites control as the queen bees. There is no room for individual desires and markets in these plans.
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There have to be a lot of people saying, “I don’t buy it!” If there are enough people thinking that, then THEY will be overwhelmed because the only way THEY can work is in the dark. Too much light and heat on them is like the same on cockroaches, deadly to their plans so they scatter.
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