Let me outline the most basic, since we appear not to have learned them yet. If a people believe \u201csociety doesn\u2019t need to exist\u201d, they are also going to end up going without all the things that a society provides. Public goods will never develop \u2014 like public healthcare, affordable education, safety nets, and so on. As a result, inequality will skyrocket, because people will have to pay capitalists monopoly prices for the things they should have simply given each other. Because there\u2019s little social investment in such a society, it will soon enough grow impoverished \u2014 after all, capitalists are hardly interested in sharing the wealth, and the gains they accumulate will simply go to yachts, mansions, and shares. All that describes America perfectly, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Let me outline the most basic, since we appear not to have learned them yet. If a people believe \u201csociety doesn\u2019t need to exist\u201d, they are also going to end up going without all the things that a society provides. Public goods will never develop \u2014 like public healthcare, affordable education, safety nets, and so … <\/p>\n