You are right to point out that such places don't exist. But it's worth remembering that the US was wealthy (and increasingly so) long before Keynes dressed up playground fairness as an academic discipline. Rich societies enable the existence of big government, not the other way around.
Re:CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better
by nouveaux on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:22PM
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Prior to Keynes, the US built it's wealth on slave labor. The cost for human rights is high.
There is a strong consensus among economic historians that slavery didn't move the needle that much. Cotton production was perhaps 5% of GDP. The slave stock constituted perhaps 15% of national wealth.
Re:CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better
by michaelmrose on Monday August 10, 2020 @08:52PM
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Slavery wasn't an evenly distributed affair.
It certainly isn't the US where in fact said thumb is presently pressed firmly on that scale via social security, food stamps, medicare, medicaid, tanif, section 8 and so forth.