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by plagiarist 994 days ago
"Entitlements."

The real parasitic drain on the economy is the large accumulations of capital that prevent the Invisible Hand from manifesting. Being alive is an inelastic good. If people have to choose between starving to death or labor for scrip to use at the company grocery, it breaks the efficiency of the market at valuing labor.

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Dollars are the scrip and the government is the company store, only accepting dollars (they control) for the protection racket.
The government is both wasting too much money feeding poors who that guy wants to labor or die, and also at the same time forcing too many people to labor for no gain because of whatever thing you're imagining here.