There is a level of laziness in this country, where, when confronted with too many difficult choices or options for action, we tend to shut down and simply choose what’s easiest. Capitalism relies on this in order to sell us bad choices (the default choice in a capitalistic society is almost always the poorer one). It’s why the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor — the rich can afford (time and money) to pay an expert to make the better choices, whereas the poor have no expertise in specialized areas (like investing, money management, insurance, law, etc.), and not enough money to hire someone who *does* have the expertise to make the better decisions. Given a multitude of choices and no expertise to make them, it’s a crap shoot, and more often than not, we lose.
This is why I’m a fan of “big government” programs. Bureaucrat specialists who know this stuff, and make $50,000 a year aren’t getting paid enough to figure out how to screw over their customers in order to make more money for their shareholders. They may not *all* be motivated by a sense of charity and good-will, but enough of them are — at least enough to not willingly screw most of us over. This gives most of us a safety net.
Education. Retirement. Health Care. Welfare. Police. Fire Protection. Transportation. The Environment. Parks and Recreation. etc. — I’d rather they not be for profit, and I’d rather that public employees who knew more about them than I do would take care of them for me.
This frees me to focus on my passions — what I know best. And it makes me less stressed. Less stress = better worker.
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