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Re: Can there be a government funded social safety net consistent with "capitalism"?
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bb113
on 12/01/2013, 00:32:11 UTC
This is a spin off of this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=135176.0

I can think of problems with all the solutions I come up with.
What do you think?

The usual method is insurance, or mutual aid societies. Both voluntary, both work just fine.

I'm thinking of it more as a philosophical question. I mean perhaps having a government precludes some peoples definitions of capitalism. The response would be that there will always be a biggest gang and people willing to use aggression which could interfere just as much. So according to that "pure" capitalism is inconsistent with human nature.