Money For Nothing - A Free Lunch Is The Most Expensive Lunch

Hey JessCitizens

There's nothing like getting something for free, people love free stuff and would do just about anything to get a freebie. Our entire political system is based on who can provide us with the most "free stuff", and as long as the transaction isn't an immediate payment, we don't mind it one bit.

Everything free is usually paid for twice or three times more and brings with it a host of inefficiencies. We find ourselves in a world where everyone aspires for wealth without work. The life where we can have everything and work for nothing, as contradictory as it seems, the disconnect between money and value has allowed some to live this way and glamourise it to the rest of the world that support the economy.

A free lunch is only possible at someone else's expense; a free lunch either comes from robbing one to pay for another or robbing from everyone to pay for a select few.

Government support

Governments frame their support for the poor and underemployed as a way to keep society from defending into chaos. Taking some of our production and redistributing it to those at the ends of the social class ladder. On the surface, it sounds fantastic, but when you dig into it, you see the grotesque reality of it all.

Government support is anything but support for the poor; it's actively about enriching a select few through the premise of helping and then creating more customers to drive your need to get bigger.

The free money they send people each month allows many to live without the motivation to work. This, in turn, attracts more people to this and thus creates more unproductive people.

The more unproductive people, the more they rely on the government, the more the government needs to expand, so as you see it pays for governments to keep people from becoming self-sufficient.

Government jobs

I'm not sure how it works in other countries, but here in South Africa, government jobs are always the most overpriced cushy jobs people coast in. You're essentially paid to dig up a hole in the morning and fill it up in the evening.

We all know government jobs are a bunch of rubbish. Still, the premise is they work, spend their salary into the economy and create productive employment, but this is a highly ineffective way of distributing the income.

Government jobs rob the country from allowing these people to compete, to push themselves, to create jobs, businesses, and be more productive and in turn, improving the overall economy. Government jobs take away peoples need to compete as they can coast on tax revenue.

Government programs

Government programs are often a cesspool of theft and corruption; these programs are essentially kingmakers and run through nepotism and bribery. The businesses that get these tenders can corner the market without any strategic advantage or providing value, the only thing they have is access to politicians who assign capital.

This creates a widespread moral hazard that robs others of opportunity, who would have been more productive and deserving of the funds from the market, NOT the government. Government programs are effectively anti-competitive and kill competition from others, creating a barrier to entry and keeping people poor and devoid of opportunities.

Have your say

What do you good people of HIVE think? Governments today do far more harm than good, and even if they did more good than harm, I'd still advocate for them to step back. The job of the government is to facilitate and effectively get smaller over time to a point where its no longer needed.

Now it's a crutch that continues to disable society from actually functioning correctly.

So have at it my Jessies! If you don't have something to comment, comment "I am a Jessie."

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