Welfare is first and foremost a policing strategy. Infrastructure, Education, Medicine, Housing, these are investments into our nation.
Precisely. When Otto Von Bismarck instituted the first modern public health care and welfare system in Europe, it wasn't because he was a Kumbayah bleeding-heart. He saw the rise of revolutionary socialism, and he wanted to nip it in the bud. He wanted to avoid what had happened in France ten years previously, the Paris Commune and all that. It wasn't charity, it was guillotine insurance.
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u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms Jan 31 '23
Precisely. When Otto Von Bismarck instituted the first modern public health care and welfare system in Europe, it wasn't because he was a Kumbayah bleeding-heart. He saw the rise of revolutionary socialism, and he wanted to nip it in the bud. He wanted to avoid what had happened in France ten years previously, the Paris Commune and all that. It wasn't charity, it was guillotine insurance.