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107 sats \ 9 replies \ @SimpleStacker 10 Jan \ parent \ on: What To Do about Homelessness Politics_And_Law

The point is that voluntary charities may solve the problems more efficiently because they tend to be staffed by people who actually care.

60 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 10 Jan

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.

69 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 10 Jan

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.

83 sats \ 4 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 10 Jan

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.

65 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 10 Jan

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.

155 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 10 Jan

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.

39 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 10 Jan

I mean once you see it... it is so obvious and it bothers you why everyone doesn't get it.

The struggle is real.

95 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 23h

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.

38 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 10 Jan

Bingo!

The other is that since they are funded voluntarily if they fail they either adapt or they cease to exist. That's not how government departments work. They get more money stolen from the people.

94 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 10 Jan

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.