There are quite a few well made points in this article. People tend to be overly judgmental of others without considering the underlying reasons for their behavior. It could be their actions are related to stress or trauma experienced as young as infancy or even into adulthood. It is important to be compassionate and understanding.
That said, there are also a lot of people willing to take advantage of others out there. My fear is that articles like this will be used to weaponize theft by the state, i.e. taxation. Taxation is theft. It’s not compassionate to steal from your neighbor to give to the homeless. True compassion is giving what you yourself have worked for and earned.
When you incentive victimhood through coercive state wealth distribution programs, you will get more victimhood. I would personally like to see less victimhood. There are a lot of ways to help victims, but state wealth redistribution programs only create more victims. They lure people who would otherwise be able to rely on themselves and cause them to be reliant on others. This hinders their ability to rely on themselves in the future. This creates a cycle of perpetual victimhood.
There are in fact a lot of people out there who are lazy and who rely on the hard work of others. A couple hundred years ago in this country, this was called legalized slavery. Today we have another form of legalized slavery. It is a little bit different, but one way to think about how this form of slavery works is to consider how workers essentially work from January to around April or May without receiving any pay, as it all goes to taxes. Then the rest of the year, they work tax free. That’s 4 or 5 months of tax slavery.
Communities should be learning and understanding and helping people who have problems through voluntarily funded organizations. This is much more helpful for those who need it, and allows more resources that people are willing to put toward helping others toward people who really need help.
One might ask where all these resources would come from. This is a really silly question. I just explained that people work from January to some time in May just to pay their taxes. If we didn’t have forced wealth redistribution systems, then every worker would have an extra 4–5 months of salary a year that they could dedicate in part to use to help people in their community.
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