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by hprotagonist 2110 days ago
isn't this what governments ought to exist to do? "promote the General Welfare" is within the first 30 words of the Preamble.
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Most people believe so, but not all.

Even so - if you can solve these problems and make good money while doing so, why wouldn’t you want to?

Promote - as in cheerlead, facilitate, protect - not as in, well, try to do by forcing participation.
Exactly. It's designed from the perspective of protecting people's rights, and by protecting those rights promotes the common good.