RE: Debate Forum - Week 8 - Guaranteed Income
Good morning dear brother @wwf!) In my opinion a guaranteed income does not help but makes harm to the society. Because every man is the architect of his own happiness. But if a person gets a minimum, he will not try to achieve more. It can even generate elements of parasitism and kill the initiative in a person. In the case you will be able to refuse from the guaranteed minimum, you will get independence. If you want to get freedom, you should be able to sacrifise something and to refuse from the benefits given by the state. To get material and spiritual independence, you should be able to refuse from the help of others. But in any society there are people who can`t fend for themselves, for example handicapped people. In this case the functions of the state should be performed by people of high morals and we should work at ourselves to become people able to give a helping hand to the needy.
If governments are not capable of resolving poverty, how do you think this issue can be resolved and who is ultimately responsible for the members of our community who are handicapped and unable to look after themselves?
I think we need to create a charitable foundation which will consist of people with high moral values who will be ready to help other members of the community who are handicapped. And of course we should spread our ideas among other people we know to make the community bigger and stronger.
If the community was strong enough and independent, people would have more than enough time, energy and resources to look after the dependents within their community. There would be no need for foundations, the state or any other organization. Why not support the community to do it themselves?
I agree that there should be independent people with good resources in the being created community and in this case there will be no need in charitable foundations of course because people will have enough time to take care of other members of the community who are handicapped.