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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: koan who wrote (19231)7/6/2012 2:53:31 PM
From: sm1th3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 85487
 
Insofar as it produces a lack of basic social goods at the bottom, gross inequality also destroys the material independence and security that democratic citizens require to participate on a roughly equal footing in political and social life.."


Completely backwards. Welfare and govt dependency destroy material independence.

And access to such goods is essential to standing and respect in one’s own eyes and those of the community
When the rich want to keep what they have produced it is greed, but when the poor want more than they are capable of producing it is essential to standing and respect
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