Good morning, @Rachelhanson10 . I believe in what you said that " the government should be in the “business” of taking care of people and there are times when caring for others is not lucrative in a financial sense".
But as a persons that lives in a populist, socialist country I tend to think the opposite. The minute you get in some kind of system that doesn't rely on a financial model that assures the possibility of maintaining and develop the infrastructure that it represents and start giving for free all their services and goods (for example education), that's the minute everything goes broke, I've seen it and lived it on flesh. It's such a good thing to do, but it doesn't work in our entropy based world.
Either way, great article! I'll be writing soon about what it is to grow a business in Venezuela, stay tuned to check it out! And let me know what you thing about my opinion of your post!
I'm excited to read your article!
While there are certainy limits to what a government can, or should, do to help it's citizens I think that some services (education and health care, for example) should be equally accesible for everyone. It seems to me, based on some models, that having acces to those things improves society in that country.