In a modern society, people are very much dependent on each other, regardless of libertopian ravings to the contrary. We have but to examine the artifacts of modern life to understand that. The more advanced a society becomes, the more that becomes the truth.
It's all bound together by divisions of labor, specializations, and commerce.
The other part of it that the usual suspects refuse to recognize is that food, in this country, has absolutely no scarcity whatsoever, other than that caused by maldistribution. We throw away more food than we give away, and the act of doing both is actually beneficial to food producers. Whatever food the govt distributes for free is money in the pockets of those who produce it.
The other part of it all that's deliberately ignored is that the sacred Free Market has tripped all over itself in the past wrt food. An over supply of food in the early 1930's led to precipitous price drops and a situation where millions went hungry because there was no profit in harvesting & bringing crops to market.
The so-called Free Market system has also failed to distribute rewards in a fashion where it supports itself in terms of providing for middle class incomes in the face of ever increasing living expenses. Median families & below would be earning ~40% more today if the income distribution curve of 1980 had been maintained, while the top 1% would be earning about half of what they now do. Food stamps don't even begin to make up for that shift of income to the tippy top.
Food stamps? Socialism? Of course it is, but it's piss poor socialism compared to what we had prior to Saint Ronnie, when unions pushed wages up & higher taxes at the top kept the rich & well connected from taking the whole pie, when offshoring was just a gleam in the eye of American capitalists & when PEG's hadn't discovered just how profitable the looting of otherwise healthy companies really was.
Can't figure it out? You're not supposed to, sillies. That's why you've been given Ideologues & pundits to worship, slogans to chant & a sense of moral superiority where there is none. Think you're safe, that you're some sort of special snowflake because you sing along with the choir? Hardly. Whether you realize it or not, you're on the hit list- they'll get to you eventually, and it'll be your own fault, but not in ways you'll ever recognize.
So, uhh, you have a job & resent paying taxes at all? So did a lot of other people before too many became enthralled by the ideology of greed, before they came to worship wealth & those who possess it as false Gods, before "I got mine -Screw you!" became the slogan of too many people who don't realize that we depend on each other more than they're willing to admit.
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