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Hardly. Some if us worry about those without "ability" as you put it. What do you do with folks who are not born bright enough to succeed without help? You could just push them aside, let them live in the gutters, beg, steal, make whatever life they can on the fringes of society. But by tempering capitalism a little bit, by giving up a bit of one's economic wealth, one buys social stability and a measure of peace. One can argue about the most efficient ways to "buy" a stable society, but one cannot argue that it has a price. Anyone with children knows that it is worth the price. Complete individual selfishness leads to a rather brutal society- my guess is you, and possibly Skipper, are the only ones who think you would want to live in that reality. The rest of us realize that individual selfishness sometimes is in conflict with social selfishness- and sometimes social selfishness is more important. Most people do not want to see crippled beggars on the streets, like they have in third world countries without safety nets. Most people don't want to hire personal security forces because they live in a country where people are poor, and exploited, and kidnapping for money is a common occupation. There is a tension between personal freedom and social anarchy, you seem completely oblivious to this, or you choose to ignore it. |
