Yea- I agree. I was absolutely born with certain advantages even ignoring all
other more significant advantages I may have or had early on. I was born in
the US. Full stop. While there are people who are disadvantaged here almost
everybody has got it better off than a large percentage of people around the
world who are similarly disadvantaged. The reality is even someone begging on
the street here has it better than the equivalent in a great many places
around the world. For at least here there are people with the resources to
provide to those without (and do) that do not exist elsewhere.
If I had it my way I'd end taxation or near to it as is remotely possible and
open the boarders. There is nothing wrong with healthy competition from the
third world when governments don't disadvantage some for the benefit others
and by that I mean what is generally sold to us as being for the benefit of
one group we might think "that's good- we're helping the poor" generally
means in practice the funneling of money to another private wealthy interest.
Or for that matter safety. Governments frequently mandate things over
"safety" in spite of the costs far outweighing the benefits but all the while
they do it anyway because some private interest benefits.
Right now what happens is the good paying jobs move overseas if you limit
immigration and from there you really are just infringing on one population
or anothers right to travel. I also don't like the idea of boarders in that
these polices are in a sense racist towards people of other regions and
bigoted toward those less fortunate. Regardless of the increase in
immigration the vast majority of Americans would still be in a better
position to compete given the standards and investment in education and for
those that don't it's probably largely ones own undoing or an otherwise
failed or failing education system. Evaluate opportunities, pick paths that
pay, save, and learn to adapt to change. It's going to happen regardless. You
might as well prepare and if you don't you probably have had too much of
advance in life relative to others around the world. And in a capitalist
society your kids may not do as well as you did. That's the price of
capitalism.
We're better off coming up with technical solutions to problems than
implementing legal solutions as the legal ones frequently don't do much of
anything other than take money from one group (taxpayers) and put it in the
hands of another (lawyers/government employees of one sort or another)
without actual benefit or maybe minimal benefit (ie if you fund a police
force and the resulting arrests don't result in reduced crime then whats the
point? I bring this up because criminals tend not to think about the
consequence of the crimes they are committing so increasing police when
police sort of clean up rather than stop crime and then do that really poorly
you have to ask yourself if it makes any sense at all to fund a police force
of any significant size- there may be a solution to reducing crime- but it
probably is not in policing).
