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Re:Poverty-Fighting Startups by zappo2938 on Sunday January 14, 2018 @01:21AM (#16143061)
Governments shouldn't take care of people. People should take care of people. (Over course, we should take care of ourselves first but that doesn't always work out.)
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Re:Poverty-Fighting Startups by splitrocket on Sunday January 14, 2018 @10:26AM (#16144601)
Strange, is the government somehow not made up of people?

This line of reasoning is so strange, like government is some sort of alien being, not an institution of the people, for the people.

Taxes are how you buy civilization. Voting is how you decide what sort of civilization you want.

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Re:Poverty-Fighting Startups by zappo2938 on Sunday January 14, 2018 @02:36PM (#16145849)
I read "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau[0] in my early twenties and have been miserable ever since.

"I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least' ... But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government."

[0] http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper2/thoreau/civil.html

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Re:Poverty-Fighting Startups by PhasmaFelis on Sunday January 14, 2018 @01:29AM (#16143078)
People taking care of people on an individual basis doesn't scale up very well.
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