this isn't a thing i do though. are you projecting again?
i'm trying to say that government is the one to provide the necessary social support, which is less about 'right' and 'wrong' than you think - until it comes to business, at any rate
we live in a world where allegedly educated, affluent people with instant access to high technology and scientific research will still swear up and down that homeopathy works, acupuncture actually has any basis in reality, and that their lives matter to some nebulous all-powerful entity that has the power to create the universe and yet when they fail to intervene and stop cousin johnny's gambling problem it's because reasons.
we are the most exceptionally ignorant society that ever existed. we have access to resources that previous civilisations could literally not even have dreamed of, we have knowledge at hand which people elsewhere in the world still don't know of, and yet here we are defending some fucking fraud's "right" to sell magical magnetic rocks to retirees with back pain or some sick rip-off artist's "right" to exploit some grieving, desperate mother's vulnerability by telling them they can put them in touch with their dead child.
it's disgusting, and completely indefensible. it is also a complete brake on progress. we are pissing away our limited resources on useless junk and frivolity that we would not even miss if we hadn't been born into such a repulsively spoiled, shitty culture.
e: "we are responsible for ourselves" is an echo of the old model of social welfare, where people are expected to shut up and deal with their problems and if they can't then they can just go crawl into a corner and die. it's a selfish, shitty attitude and far removed from reality. not everyone has their shit together, and in fact remarkably few people genuinely do.
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