Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting
by jbjohns on Friday October 16, 2020 @07:25PM
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But I believe most participating countries in the EU have pretty strong social safety nets. And the US' social safety net system is at the federal level. How would a world safety net be financed?
Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting
by jki275 on Saturday October 17, 2020 @07:25AM
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US states are not countries.
That was set with our Constitution, and thoroughly tested in the 1860s. The idea has never really been seriously tested again since.
It’s a quite different setup from the EU.
That said a world wide safety net would be a good thing to advocate for on moral grounds, no?
The EU has open borders for all EU citizens, and for the most part it's faring ok. There has not been a Europe-wide social safety net crisis as a result of this freedom, and crucially for this argument: there isn't an EU wide social safety net. It has freedom of movement without a universal safety net.
The USA's states are effectively countries. All USA citizens have open borders to travel between states in the USA. For the most part, it's faring ok and there has not been a USA-wide social safety net crisis caused by this freedom either.
Iceland and cheese for everyone: That sounds like what's called the slippery slope fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope