re: #316 lostlakehiker

Without some sort of linkage between earnings and value of work done, economies stagnate as too many people drift into jobs such as “bureaucrat”.

That’s the problem. We have tons of people making a lot of money in valueless professions like advertising, TV punditry, as preachers at megachurches, etc. It’s not the bureaucrats that are the problem, really.

If it means that those who don’t have, and cannot acquire, the skills to earn a good living, should still enjoy something more than stark poverty, well, that’s a different argument from “economic equality”. Actually, it’s not an argument at all. We’re agreed on that and the social safety net is sufficient that nobody need starve or suffer exposure to the elements.

You mean it’s sufficient now? No it’s not. Unless you include jail as part of the safety net.