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Re:Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psycho... by pixl97 on Thursday November 09, 2017 @12:14PM (#15664061)
>fewer social services than any other industrialized country.

Conversely your own argument can simply be stated as

"We have a smaller welfare state than most other industrialized countries"

So I don't think you successfully argued that we don't have a welfare state at all.

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Re:Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psycho... by s73ver_ on Thursday November 09, 2017 @01:04PM (#15664435)
The existence of welfare does not a welfare state make.
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Re:Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psycho... by pixl97 on Thursday November 09, 2017 @01:18PM (#15664530)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state

By the technical definition, yea, it does seem to.

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Re:Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psycho... by MsMowz on Thursday November 09, 2017 @09:56PM (#15667589)
If any state that isn't just police and a military counts as a welfare state, then I don't think that's a useful definition of welfare state.
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