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What’s the alternative? Give government more power to tell people what they can an can’t do?



Probably reducing wealth inequality, offering free education and health care would be a good start but I am neither a sociologist or political theorist.


> Probably reducing wealth inequality, offering free education and health care would be a good start but I am neither a sociologist or political theorist.

Nor an economist?


People in poor countries working for people in rich countries is how wealth is equalized. That's how developing countries develop and how developed countries stagnate. So the existence of an international market for this is probably already part of the solution. After they have enough wealth, they can give themselves free healthcare and education without being a basket case forever depending on foreign charity.


Your argument is orthogonal to free healthcare and education being offered by the state. You don't need to be an immigrant to be poor in your country of birth, such as the US.


Well, seeing that the US is the only industrialized or even 2nd world country that doesn’t offer free healthcare. ..


I’m all for offering free education and health care. But if everyone got an education, how would that reduce inequality?

Besides, not everyone has the desire of ability to go to school.




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