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Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by sgjohnson on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @12:55PM (#35072331)
We can go one step further and also say that the entire system of social welfare is a post-WW2 invention.

Before WW2 the state only helped those who couldn’t help themselves. Now the state just fucks everyone.

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Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by zamfi on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @01:38PM (#35072976)
> Before WW2 the state only helped those who couldn’t help themselves

Not...really? Unless by "state" you are broadly including the church and other philanthropy.

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Re:Governments Should Compete for Residents, Not Businesses by vkou on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @02:03PM (#35073311)
> Before WW2 the state only helped those who couldn’t help themselves.

Through much of human history, the state largely 'helped' the aristocracy maintain a monopoly on wealth and power, through frequent applications of violence against their political enemies. In fact, in ~all non-democratic, and in many democratic societies, the state and the aristocracy - and thus, their interests, are often indistinguishable.

But either way, what does any of that have to do with passport controls?

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