The Welfare State and the Selfish Society by Denis Prager
In the contemporary world, where left-wing attitudes are regarded as normative, it is a given that capitalism, with its free market and profit motive, emanates from and creates selfishness, while socialism, the welfare state, and the “social compact†as it is increasingly referred to, emanate from and produce selflessness.
The opposite is the truth.
Whatever its intentions, the entitlement state produces far more selfish people — and therefore a far more selfish society — than a free-market economy. And we have little evidence that this widespread selfishness can be undone once it catches on.
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h/t Vicki McKenna
